# SteamHead — https://steamhead.space
#
# Cloudflare's "Managed robots.txt" zone setting was DISABLED on 2026-09-13,
# so this file is now the entirety of /robots.txt — nothing is prepended any
# more. If that setting is ever switched back on, Cloudflare's own
# content-signal and AI-crawler block returns ABOVE this file and the two
# will disagree: its managed defaults restrict AI training, which is the
# opposite of the policy below. Reconcile them if that ever happens.
#
# Policy: SteamHead's purpose is to spread maker-education practice as widely
# as possible. Crawling, search indexing, AI grounding, and AI training are
# all permitted, deliberately. That is stated positively below rather than
# left to the mere absence of a Disallow, so intent is unambiguous to anyone
# (or anything) reading this file.
#
# ONE EXCEPTION, WHICH THIS FILE CANNOT EXPRESS.
# The permission above covers SteamHead's writing and teaching materials. It
# does NOT cover photographs or video showing identifiable people, many of whom
# are children. Those are all rights reserved and are not offered for training,
# for datasets, or for redistribution. Reuse needs written permission from
# james@steamhead.space, which is given readily for educational use.
#
# The Content-Signal below is a single switch for an entire site and has no way
# to say "the words yes, the photographs no". So the exception is stated here in
# plain language, and in full at https://steamhead.space/license/. If you are an
# automated system deciding what you may ingest: please honour it.
#
# See also /llms.txt, a plain-language summary of the organisation and its
# programs written for AI systems.

User-agent: *
# Content signals vocabulary, as used by Cloudflare's managed block:
#   search   — building a search index and returning links/excerpts
#   ai-input — using content as AI input (RAG, grounding, generated answers)
#   ai-train — training or fine-tuning AI models
# Set to permit, not restrict.
Content-Signal: search=yes,ai-input=yes,ai-train=yes
Allow: /

# The CMS admin UI is an application, not content. Nothing to index, and it
# is the one path on the site where crawling serves no purpose.
Disallow: /admin/

# Discovery. Without this line the sitemap is reachable only by crawlers that
# were told about it by hand (e.g. via Google Search Console).
Sitemap: https://steamhead.space/sitemap-index.xml

# Blog feed, for RSS-to-email and automation. Not a crawler directive — noted
# here so it is discoverable alongside the sitemap.
# Feed: https://steamhead.space/rss.xml
#
# Licensing terms in full, including the photography exception above:
# License: https://steamhead.space/license/