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AI visibility glossary

robots.txt

In short

A plain text file at the site root that says which bot may crawl which URLs.

Example

A "Disallow: /" line under "User-agent: GPTBot" keeps OpenAI's training bot away from the whole site.

Where you'll see it in AILens

The robots.txt health (TEC-001), AI bot access (AGT-010) and training bot decision (AGT-011) controls.

robots.txt is a request, not a lock. And even when you allow a bot, a firewall can still block it; AGT-012 checks for that.

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