User-Agent: *
Allow: /
Disallow: /admin
Disallow: /update-resume/

# Googlebot follows only its own group, so the rules above are repeated.
# Social-card images aren't pages; Google was crawling them and counting
# them as "Crawled - currently not indexed". Social crawlers
# (facebookexternalhit, Twitterbot, LinkedInBot) use the * group and still fetch them.
User-Agent: Googlebot
Allow: /
Disallow: /admin
Disallow: /update-resume/
Disallow: /*opengraph-image

# Meta's AI crawler follows every /start?c= link on the board and guide pages
# and runs the funnel's JS, which fakes web_funnel_started (79% of starts in
# Aug 2026, still 15% on 2026-10-02). /start has nothing to index. Like
# Googlebot it reads only its own group, so the rules above are repeated.
User-Agent: meta-externalagent
Allow: /
Disallow: /admin
Disallow: /update-resume/
Disallow: /start

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