{
  "schema_version": "2026-07-09",
  "last_reviewed": "2026-07-09",
  "public_scope": "Machine-readable explanation of the current robots.txt posture for search, citation, and AI crawlers. robots.txt remains authoritative.",
  "authoritative_policy_url": "https://www.touchclass.com/robots.txt",
  "current_robots_policy": {
    "default_public_pages": "allowed",
    "blocked_paths": ["/include/", "/canvas/", "/api/", "/cache/", "/newin_gitpull.php"],
    "search_crawlers_allowed": ["Googlebot", "Bingbot", "Yeti"],
    "ai_search_or_user_crawlers_allowed": ["OAI-SearchBot", "ChatGPT-User", "PerplexityBot", "Perplexity-User", "Claude-SearchBot", "Claude-User"],
    "training_or_control_tokens_currently_allowed": ["GPTBot", "ClaudeBot", "Google-Extended"]
  },
  "recommended_default": {
    "search_and_citation_crawlers": "allow public marketing pages and machine-readable public files",
    "private_or_operational_paths": "block",
    "training_bot_policy": "business_decision_required"
  },
  "decision_status": {
    "search_citation_bots": "current policy favors discoverability",
    "training_or_model-improvement_bots": "not finally decided; current robots.txt allows them",
    "change_owner": "business, legal, security, and marketing decision"
  },
  "claim_cautions": [
    "Do not describe crawler access as a ranking guarantee.",
    "Do not state that llms.txt affects Google ranking.",
    "If robots.txt changes, update this file, llms.txt references, and source-governance maintenance notes together."
  ]
}