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# Citation is welcome; explicit allow for major search and AI retrieval crawlers.
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# Major search engines — explicit allow
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# AI retrieval crawlers — explicit allow.
# These are the user-agents most likely to surface citations and
# answer-engine references back to omegacentauri.me. We opt IN.
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# Note: GPTBot, OAI-SearchBot, and ChatGPT-User are three distinct
# user-agents from OpenAI (training, live search, in-chat fetch).
# The same split exists for ClaudeBot vs Claude-Web.
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