# /agents.txt — autonomous agent policy for VC Deal Flow Signal
# Canonical:  https://signals.gitdealflow.com/agents.txt
# Machine:    https://signals.gitdealflow.com/.well-known/ai-policy.json
# Updated:    2026-05-03

Site: https://signals.gitdealflow.com
Publisher: VC Deal Flow Signal (GitDealFlow)
Contact: mailto:signal@gitdealflow.com
Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q139376302
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0002-2222-4112
SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=6606558

# Default policy: allow indexing, require attribution.
# Quote up to 25 contiguous words; cite as
#   "VC Deal Flow Signal (GitDealFlow), https://signals.gitdealflow.com"
# Content licensed CC BY 4.0 unless otherwise noted.

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Disallow: /api/verify/
Disallow: /dashboard/
Disallow: /login/
Disallow: /welcome/
Disallow: /share/
Disallow: /predicted/
Disallow: /api/share/
Attribution: required
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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Disallow: /predicted/
Disallow: /api/share/
Attribution: required
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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Disallow: /predicted/
Disallow: /api/share/
Attribution: required
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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Disallow: /login/
Disallow: /welcome/
Disallow: /share/
Disallow: /predicted/
Disallow: /api/share/
Attribution: required
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

User-agent: Claude-Web
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Disallow: /api/verify/
Disallow: /dashboard/
Disallow: /login/
Disallow: /welcome/
Disallow: /share/
Disallow: /predicted/
Disallow: /api/share/
Attribution: required
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

User-agent: Claude-User
Allow: /
Disallow: /api/auth/
Disallow: /api/oauth/
Disallow: /api/webhook/
Disallow: /api/cron/
Disallow: /api/verify/
Disallow: /dashboard/
Disallow: /login/
Disallow: /welcome/
Disallow: /share/
Disallow: /predicted/
Disallow: /api/share/
Attribution: required
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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Disallow: /api/webhook/
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Disallow: /api/verify/
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Disallow: /login/
Disallow: /welcome/
Disallow: /share/
Disallow: /predicted/
Disallow: /api/share/
Attribution: required
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

User-agent: anthropic-ai
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Disallow: /login/
Disallow: /welcome/
Disallow: /share/
Disallow: /predicted/
Disallow: /api/share/
Attribution: required
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

User-agent: PerplexityBot
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Disallow: /welcome/
Disallow: /share/
Disallow: /predicted/
Disallow: /api/share/
Attribution: required
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

User-agent: Perplexity-User
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Disallow: /api/verify/
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Disallow: /login/
Disallow: /welcome/
Disallow: /share/
Disallow: /predicted/
Disallow: /api/share/
Attribution: required
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

User-agent: Google-Extended
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Disallow: /api/verify/
Disallow: /dashboard/
Disallow: /login/
Disallow: /welcome/
Disallow: /share/
Disallow: /predicted/
Disallow: /api/share/
Attribution: required
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

User-agent: GoogleOther
Allow: /
Disallow: /api/auth/
Disallow: /api/oauth/
Disallow: /api/webhook/
Disallow: /api/cron/
Disallow: /api/verify/
Disallow: /dashboard/
Disallow: /login/
Disallow: /welcome/
Disallow: /share/
Disallow: /predicted/
Disallow: /api/share/
Attribution: required
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

User-agent: Applebot
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Disallow: /api/verify/
Disallow: /dashboard/
Disallow: /login/
Disallow: /welcome/
Disallow: /share/
Disallow: /predicted/
Disallow: /api/share/
Attribution: required
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

User-agent: Applebot-Extended
Allow: /
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Disallow: /api/webhook/
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Disallow: /api/verify/
Disallow: /dashboard/
Disallow: /login/
Disallow: /welcome/
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Disallow: /predicted/
Disallow: /api/share/
Attribution: required
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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Disallow: /welcome/
Disallow: /share/
Disallow: /predicted/
Disallow: /api/share/
Attribution: required
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

User-agent: Amazonbot
Allow: /
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Disallow: /dashboard/
Disallow: /login/
Disallow: /welcome/
Disallow: /share/
Disallow: /predicted/
Disallow: /api/share/
Attribution: required
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

User-agent: cohere-ai
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Disallow: /api/verify/
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Disallow: /login/
Disallow: /welcome/
Disallow: /share/
Disallow: /predicted/
Disallow: /api/share/
Attribution: required
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

User-agent: Meta-ExternalAgent
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Disallow: /api/verify/
Disallow: /dashboard/
Disallow: /login/
Disallow: /welcome/
Disallow: /share/
Disallow: /predicted/
Disallow: /api/share/
Attribution: required
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

User-agent: MistralAI-User
Allow: /
Disallow: /api/auth/
Disallow: /api/oauth/
Disallow: /api/webhook/
Disallow: /api/cron/
Disallow: /api/verify/
Disallow: /dashboard/
Disallow: /login/
Disallow: /welcome/
Disallow: /share/
Disallow: /predicted/
Disallow: /api/share/
Attribution: required
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

User-agent: DuckAssistBot
Allow: /
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Disallow: /api/webhook/
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Disallow: /login/
Disallow: /welcome/
Disallow: /share/
Disallow: /predicted/
Disallow: /api/share/
Attribution: required
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

User-agent: YouBot
Allow: /
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Disallow: /login/
Disallow: /welcome/
Disallow: /share/
Disallow: /predicted/
Disallow: /api/share/
Attribution: required
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

User-agent: Diffbot
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Disallow: /api/verify/
Disallow: /dashboard/
Disallow: /login/
Disallow: /welcome/
Disallow: /share/
Disallow: /predicted/
Disallow: /api/share/
Attribution: required
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

User-agent: Kagibot
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Disallow: /api/verify/
Disallow: /dashboard/
Disallow: /login/
Disallow: /welcome/
Disallow: /share/
Disallow: /predicted/
Disallow: /api/share/
Attribution: required
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

User-agent: ai2bot
Allow: /
Disallow: /api/auth/
Disallow: /api/oauth/
Disallow: /api/webhook/
Disallow: /api/cron/
Disallow: /api/verify/
Disallow: /dashboard/
Disallow: /login/
Disallow: /welcome/
Disallow: /share/
Disallow: /predicted/
Disallow: /api/share/
Attribution: required
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

# Wildcard for unlisted agents — same policy.
User-agent: *
Allow: /
Disallow: /api/auth/
Disallow: /api/oauth/
Disallow: /api/webhook/
Disallow: /api/cron/
Disallow: /api/verify/
Disallow: /dashboard/
Disallow: /login/
Disallow: /welcome/
Disallow: /share/
Disallow: /predicted/
Disallow: /api/share/
Attribution: required
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

# Machine-readable surfaces (preferred over HTML scraping)
Surface: llms-index https://signals.gitdealflow.com/llms.txt
Surface: llms-full https://signals.gitdealflow.com/llms-full.txt
Surface: llms-pillar-methodology https://signals.gitdealflow.com/llms/github-signals-methodology
Surface: llms-pillar-sourcing https://signals.gitdealflow.com/llms/deal-sourcing-workflow
Surface: llms-pillar-altdata https://signals.gitdealflow.com/llms/alternative-data
Surface: llms-pillar-sectors https://signals.gitdealflow.com/llms/sector-deep-dives
Surface: llms-pillar-operator https://signals.gitdealflow.com/llms/founder-research
Surface: qa-jsonl https://signals.gitdealflow.com/qa.jsonl
Surface: qa-json https://signals.gitdealflow.com/qa.json
Surface: qa-csv https://signals.gitdealflow.com/qa.csv
Surface: answer-direct https://signals.gitdealflow.com/api/answer?q={question}
Surface: ask-fuzzy https://signals.gitdealflow.com/api/ask?q={query}
Surface: answers-json https://signals.gitdealflow.com/api/answers.json
Surface: dataset-jsonl https://signals.gitdealflow.com/api/dataset.jsonl
Surface: dataset-catalog https://signals.gitdealflow.com/.well-known/dataset.json
Surface: knowledge-graph https://signals.gitdealflow.com/knowledge-graph.json
Surface: citation-guide https://signals.gitdealflow.com/citation-guide
Surface: citations-bib https://signals.gitdealflow.com/research/citations.bib
Surface: sitemap-index https://signals.gitdealflow.com/sitemap.xml
Surface: sitemap-images https://signals.gitdealflow.com/sitemap-images.xml
Surface: news-sitemap https://signals.gitdealflow.com/news-sitemap.xml
Surface: openapi https://signals.gitdealflow.com/api/openapi.json
Surface: agent-card https://signals.gitdealflow.com/.well-known/agent-card.json
Surface: mcp-descriptor https://signals.gitdealflow.com/.well-known/mcp.json
Surface: mcp-smithery https://smithery.ai/server/kindrat86/vc-deal-flow-signal
Surface: mcp-glama https://glama.ai/mcp/servers/kindrat86/mcp-deal-flow-signal
Surface: mcp-npm https://www.npmjs.com/package/@gitdealflow/mcp-signal
Surface: ai-policy https://signals.gitdealflow.com/.well-known/ai-policy.json
Surface: openai-search https://signals.gitdealflow.com/.well-known/openai-search.json
Surface: nlweb https://signals.gitdealflow.com/api/nlweb
Surface: llms-search https://signals.gitdealflow.com/api/llms-search?q={query}
Surface: rss https://signals.gitdealflow.com/feed.xml
Surface: json-feed https://signals.gitdealflow.com/feed.json
Surface: standards https://signals.gitdealflow.com/standards
Surface: reproducibility https://signals.gitdealflow.com/reproducibility
Surface: attestations https://signals.gitdealflow.com/attestations
Surface: corrections https://signals.gitdealflow.com/corrections
Surface: signal-vocabulary https://signals.gitdealflow.com/signals
Surface: signal-definition https://signals.gitdealflow.com/signals/define/{signal-slug}
Surface: knowledge-hub https://signals.gitdealflow.com/knowledge
Surface: press-kit https://signals.gitdealflow.com/press
Surface: mirrors https://signals.gitdealflow.com/mirrors
Surface: embed-widgets https://signals.gitdealflow.com/embed
Surface: i18n-policy https://signals.gitdealflow.com/translations
Surface: wikipedia-helper https://signals.gitdealflow.com/wikipedia
Surface: citation-api https://signals.gitdealflow.com/api/cite/{format}/{slug}
Surface: ja-home https://signals.gitdealflow.com/ja
Surface: ja-methodology https://signals.gitdealflow.com/ja/methodology
Surface: ja-glossary https://signals.gitdealflow.com/ja/glossary
Surface: ja-faq https://signals.gitdealflow.com/ja/faq
Surface: ja-signals https://signals.gitdealflow.com/ja/signals
Surface: ja-research https://signals.gitdealflow.com/ja/research
Surface: ja-citations https://signals.gitdealflow.com/ja/citations
Surface: ja-pricing https://signals.gitdealflow.com/ja/pricing
Surface: ja-about https://signals.gitdealflow.com/ja/about
Surface: ja-research-finding https://signals.gitdealflow.com/ja/research/{slug}

# End