site-architecture

Site Architecture Skill

For technical website structure that enables discovery by search engines AND AI crawlers (GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot).

Philosophy

Content is king. Architecture is the kingdom.

Great content buried in poor architecture won't be discovered. This skill covers the technical foundation that makes your content findable by:

• Google, Bing (traditional search)
• GPTBot (ChatGPT), ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot (AI assistants)
• Social platforms (Open Graph, Twitter Cards)

robots.txt

Basic Template

# robots.txt

# Allow all crawlers by default
User-agent: *
Allow: /
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /private/
Disallow: /_next/
Disallow: /cdn-cgi/

# Sitemap location
Sitemap: https://yoursite.com/sitemap.xml

# Crawl delay (optional - be careful, not all bots respect this)
# Crawl-delay: 1

AI Bot Configuration

# robots.txt with AI bot rules

# === SEARCH ENGINES ===
User-agent: Googlebot
Allow: /

User-agent: Bingbot
Allow: /

# === AI ASSISTANTS (Allow for discovery) ===
User-agent: GPTBot
Allow: /

User-agent: ChatGPT-User
Allow: /

User-agent: Claude-Web
Allow: /

User-agent: ClaudeBot
Allow: /

User-agent: PerplexityBot
Allow: /

User-agent: Amazonbot
Allow: /

User-agent: anthropic-ai
Allow: /

User-agent: Google-Extended
Allow: /

# === BLOCK AI TRAINING (Optional - block training, allow chat) ===
# Uncomment these if you want to be cited but not used for training
# User-agent: CCBot
# Disallow: /

# User-agent: GPTBot
# Disallow: /  # Blocks both chat and training

# === BLOCK SCRAPERS ===
User-agent: AhrefsBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: SemrushBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: MJ12bot
Disallow: /

# === DEFAULT ===
User-agent: *
Allow: /
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /auth/
Disallow: /private/
Disallow: /*.json$
Disallow: /*?*

Sitemap: https://yoursite.com/sitemap.xml

Next.js robots.txt

// app/robots.ts
import { MetadataRoute } from 'next';

export default function robots(): MetadataRoute.Robots {
  const baseUrl = process.env.NEXT_PUBLIC_URL || 'https://yoursite.com';

  return {
    rules: [
      {
        userAgent: '*',
        allow: '/',
        disallow: ['/api/', '/admin/', '/private/', '/_next/'],
      },
      {
        userAgent: 'GPTBot',
        allow: '/',
      },
      {
        userAgent: 'ClaudeBot',
        allow: '/',
      },
      {
        userAgent: 'PerplexityBot',
        allow: '/',
      },
    ],
    sitemap: `${baseUrl}/sitemap.xml`,
  };
}