User-agent: *
Allow: /

# Allow search engines to crawl key content
Allow: /~profile-card
Allow: /~repo-card
Allow: /~trending
Allow: /~pricing
Allow: /blog

# Block only non-HTML and internal endpoints that cannot carry a meta tag.
# App pages like /dashboard, /login, and /*/card/edit are intentionally NOT
# blocked here: they ship <meta name="robots" content="noindex,nofollow">, and
# a robots.txt block would stop crawlers from ever seeing (and honoring) it.
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /_routes/
Disallow: /_auth/
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /.well-known/

# GitHub.com mirror probes — vocabulary matches
# workers/utils/github-mirror-paths.json (site pages + repo tabs only).
# Do NOT disallow bare names that are real GitHub users (map, tours, watching…).
Disallow: /topics/
Disallow: /marketplace/
Disallow: /explore
Disallow: /collections/
Disallow: /sponsors/
Disallow: /organizations/
Disallow: /orgs/
Disallow: /codespaces/
Disallow: /copilot/
Disallow: /*/tags
Disallow: /*/activity
Disallow: /*/actions
Disallow: /*/releases
Disallow: /*/issues
Disallow: /*/pulls
Disallow: /*/projects
Disallow: /*/wiki
Disallow: /*/security
Disallow: /*/settings
Disallow: /*/pulse
Disallow: /*/network
Disallow: /*/graphs
Disallow: /*/stargazers
Disallow: /*/watchers
Disallow: /*/forks
Disallow: /*/commits
Disallow: /*/tree
Disallow: /*/blob
Disallow: /*/compare
Disallow: /*/branches
Disallow: /*/deployments
Disallow: /*/packages
Disallow: /*/discussions

# Prevent unbounded design-state query variants from wasting crawl budget.
# The clean page URL is the canonical; these variants add no indexable value.
Disallow: /*?d=*
Disallow: /*?state=*
Disallow: /*?design=*

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