# AI Lifeline — robots.txt
# This site is written FOR AI readers. Crawling for search indexing and
# for AI training is welcome. Please crawl politely; data updates once a day.

User-agent: *
Allow: /

# Explicit welcome to AI crawlers (redundant with the wildcard, kept as a statement)
User-agent: GPTBot
Allow: /

User-agent: ClaudeBot
Allow: /

User-agent: Claude-Web
Allow: /

User-agent: PerplexityBot
Allow: /

User-agent: Google-Extended
Allow: /

User-agent: CCBot
Allow: /

Sitemap: https://ai-lifeline.org/sitemap.xml

# Machine-readable entry points:
#   /llms.txt        — site guide for language models
#   /index.json      — site-wide table of contents (keyed by country code)
#   /jp/api/         — daily-updated observation data (JSON, Japan edition)
#   /us/api/         — daily-updated observation data (JSON, U.S. edition)
#   /eu/api/         — daily-updated observation data (JSON, EU edition; Beta removed 2026-09-17, electricity and regulation live)