Document robots.txt AI agent access check#5330
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Summary
The agent readiness score (
mint score) now includes arobotsTxtAllowsAIcheck that verifies a site'srobots.txtdoes not block common AI user agents (GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, etc.). This PR documents how robots.txt affects AI agent crawling and what users should do about it.Changes
guides/geo.mdx): Added "Allow AI agents in robots.txt" section explaining which user agents to allow, with good/bad robots.txt examples and a pointer tomint score.optimize/seo.mdx): Added a warning under the custom robots.txt section alerting users that blocking AI agents prevents citation in AI answers, with a link to the GEO guide for details.Note
Low Risk
Low risk documentation-only change; no product logic or configuration behavior is modified.
Overview
Documents how
robots.txtimpacts AI crawlers and citations.Adds a new “Allow AI agents in robots.txt” section to
guides/geo.mdx, including common AI user agents, good/badrobots.txtexamples, and a reference to themint scorerobotsTxtAllowsAIcheck. Updatesoptimize/seo.mdxwith a warning that customrobots.txtfiles blocking AI agents prevent AI tools from crawling and citing the docs, linking back to the GEO guide.Reviewed by Cursor Bugbot for commit db8e07e. Bugbot is set up for automated code reviews on this repo. Configure here.