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At present there is no public adoption-rate or effectiveness data on whether, and to what extent, mainstream AI crawlers (GPTBot, ClaudeBot, Google-Extended, etc.) read llms.txt.
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Medium-term (~90 days)
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10/13/2026
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Valid until: 1/11/2027
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