{
  "policy_version": "2026.08.11-1",
  "updated": "2026-08-11",
  "robots_txt": "https://reputationmedics.com/robots.txt",
  "llms_txt": "https://reputationmedics.com/llms.txt",
  "sitemap": "https://reputationmedics.com/sitemap.xml",
  "contact": "info@reputationmedics.com",
  "notes": "Every HTTP response includes X-Bot-Policy-Version. Compare it against this changelog to attribute crawl behaviour to a specific policy revision.",
  "changelog": [
    {
      "version": "2026.08.11-1",
      "date": "2026-08-11",
      "summary": "Policy versioning, probe-exposure alerting, tunable firewall thresholds.",
      "changes": [
        "Every response now returns X-Bot-Policy-Version and X-Bot-Policy-Updated headers.",
        "Published the machine-readable policy changelog at /bot-policy.json.",
        "Probe paths that answer 2xx with content raise an immediate internal alert.",
        "Firewall burst window, distinct-miss limit, ban duration, probe patterns and path allowlists are operator-tunable at runtime (safe defaults unchanged)."
      ]
    },
    {
      "version": "2026.08.05-1",
      "date": "2026-08-05",
      "summary": "Crawler identity verification and probe blocking at the edge.",
      "changes": [
        "Allowed crawlers are verified by reverse DNS and published IP ranges; spoofed user-agents are reported separately and rate-limited.",
        "Known probe paths (.env, .git, *.php, key files, debug tooling) return 403 with an empty body.",
        "Clients producing a burst of distinct 404s are temporarily banned.",
        "A scheduled audit re-verifies allowed crawlers every 6 hours."
      ]
    },
    {
      "version": "2026.07.28-1",
      "date": "2026-07-28",
      "summary": "AI crawlers explicitly allowed; admin surfaces disallowed.",
      "changes": [
        "Allow: Googlebot, Bingbot, GPTBot, OAI-SearchBot, ChatGPT-User, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, Applebot.",
        "Block: Bytespider and bulk content scrapers.",
        "Disallow /admin/* for all agents; admin routes are excluded from the sitemap.",
        "Published /llms.txt alongside robots.txt and sitemap.xml."
      ]
    }
  ]
}