Terracotta Bot

AI Search / Retrieval Ceramic robots.txt behaviour unknown

Ceramic crawler or user-triggered agent.

User-Agent

Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Terracotta Bot/1.0)

Allow Terracotta Bot in robots.txt

User-agent: Terracotta Bot
Allow: /

Block Terracotta Bot in robots.txt

User-agent: Terracotta Bot
Disallow: /

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