# robots.txt for hermoso.ai
User-agent: *
Allow: /

# Explicit allow for AI crawlers + answer engines (belt-and-suspenders over the wildcard).
User-agent: GPTBot
Allow: /
User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
Allow: /
User-agent: ChatGPT-User
Allow: /
User-agent: ClaudeBot
Allow: /
User-agent: Claude-Web
Allow: /
User-agent: anthropic-ai
Allow: /
User-agent: PerplexityBot
Allow: /
User-agent: Perplexity-User
Allow: /
User-agent: Google-Extended
Allow: /
# Google's two 2026 agent fetchers, documented at developers.google.com/crawling (changelog entries
# 2026-03-20 and 2026-07-16, read 2026-08-23). Google-Agent is used by Google agents acting on a user's
# request; Google-GeminiNotebook is the renamed NotebookLM fetcher. Both are already covered by the
# wildcard above, so naming them changes no behaviour: it states the intent explicitly, the same
# belt-and-suspenders reason every other agent in this block is listed.
User-agent: Google-Agent
Allow: /
User-agent: Google-GeminiNotebook
Allow: /
User-agent: CCBot
Allow: /
User-agent: Applebot-Extended
Allow: /

Sitemap: https://hermoso.ai/sitemap.xml

# There is deliberately no video sitemap. Every video on this site is a decorative loop: the hero
# background, the format cards and the brand-ad gallery. All 44 carry no audio track at all and
# play muted, looping and without controls beside the page copy, so none of them is the point of
# the page it sits on. Google requires a video to be on a watch page, "a watch page's main purpose
# is to show users a single video", and names "a video category page that lists multiple videos of
# equal prominence" as explicitly not one
# (developers.google.com/search/docs/appearance/video, read 2026-08-24). The sitemap that used to
# be declared here pointed 15 loops at the homepage and produced 0 videos indexed against 38 "Video
# isn't on a watch page" in Search Console. Building a page per loop to satisfy that would be
# manufacturing pages for a crawler, so the file was removed instead. Add one back only if we
# publish a video that is genuinely the subject of its own page.

# A plain-text summary of what Hermoso is and does, written for AI agents and answer engines.
# There is no standardised robots directive for it yet, so it is stated here as a comment and
# declared on every English page as <link rel="alternate" type="text/plain" href="/llms.txt">.
# https://hermoso.ai/llms.txt

# Machine-readable API description (OpenAPI 3.1) for the one public API — the MCP server.
# https://hermoso.ai/openapi.json  (also at /.well-known/openapi.json)
# MCP server card: https://hermoso.ai/.well-known/mcp.json · endpoint: https://app.hermoso.ai/mcp
# Developer docs: https://hermoso.ai/docs/ · error contract: https://hermoso.ai/docs/errors/
# Generated tool roster: https://hermoso.ai/docs/reference/tools.json

# Markdown twins for AI agents — generated from the pages they mirror.
# /pricing.md  /mcp/index.md  /index.md  (see /llms.txt for the full map)