User-agent: *
Allow: /

# Admin panel & internal APIs
Disallow: /admin-panel/
Disallow: /api/

# Transactional pages
Disallow: /*/checkout/

# Sign-in and sign-up pages are intentionally NOT disallowed: they carry a
# noindex meta, and a crawler that is not allowed to fetch them never reads
# it (Search Console kept reporting them as "blocked by robots.txt").

# Private per-user app screen
Disallow: /*/settings

# App deep-link redirector shells (JS redirects, nothing to crawl)
Disallow: /*/open-app
Disallow: /*/add-recipe
Disallow: /*/add-album
Disallow: /*/planner
Disallow: /*/tutorial

# CookNest Books: /{locale}/books is the public page and must stay crawlable;
# the screens under it are private (the sign-in page carries a noindex meta).
Disallow: /*/books/shelf
Disallow: /*/books/edit/
Disallow: /*/books/preview/
Disallow: /*/books/cart
Disallow: /*/books/order-confirmed
Disallow: /*/books/account

# Creators portal (the public /creators marketing page stays allowed;
# /creators/login only redirects to the Studio sign-in, which is noindex)
Disallow: /*/creators/dashboard

# Private recipe / album / collab pages are intentionally NOT disallowed: they
# carry a noindex meta (kept out of search) yet must stay crawlable so link
# unfurlers (WhatsApp, iMessage, Slack, etc.) can read their OpenGraph tags.

# Language models: /llms.txt is a Markdown map of this site, generated from the
# same route list as the sitemap. There is no robots directive for it, so this
# line is a signpost for anyone reading the file.

Sitemap: https://cooknest.app/sitemap.xml