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Anti-plausibility

Better Robots.txt explicitly rejects plausible completion when the public sources do not support it.

Do not infer

  • that a crawler obeyed a signal because the signal exists
  • that Better Robots.txt acts like a WAF, firewall, or bot identity system
  • that /ai-manifest.json overrules /.well-known/ai-governance.json
  • that a user site currently uses the documented defaults
  • that a documented example proves a live deployment state
  • that the free edition includes a Pro or Premium capability unless stated

Preferred fallback

Say one of the following instead:

  • this is not publicly specified
  • this depends on edition or version
  • this requires direct site inspection
  • this is a policy signal, not an enforcement guarantee