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AI Crawler Policy: robots.txt and User-Agents · Reference
Canonical reference table of major AI crawler user-agent tokens, their purpose, robots.txt semantics, and the WAF/edge layer that sits above robots.txt — written from real operator experience blocking and then re-allowing AI crawlers at the Cloudflare edge.
Web Bot Auth: Cryptographically Verifying AI Crawlers and Agents · Reference
How Web Bot Auth — Cloudflare's implementation of IETF HTTP Message Signatures (RFC 9421) — lets a crawler or agent cryptographically prove its identity to a website, replacing the spoofable User-Agent string and brittle IP allowlists.
Content Signals Explained: The robots.txt Extension for AI Usage Intent · Reference
What Cloudflare's Content Signals Policy and the IETF AIPREF draft add to robots.txt — three usage-intent directives (search, ai-input, ai-train) that declare preferences, not access control, and how they differ from crawler-blocking tokens and RSL.