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Crawler rules (GPTBot, ClaudeBot) can stay; user-directed agents are the ones a customer sends.","code":"User-agent: Claude-User\nUser-agent: Perplexity-User\nUser-agent: GoogleAgent-Mariner\nUser-agent: GoogleAgent-Shopping\nUser-agent: Manus-User\nUser-agent: MistralAI-User\nAllow: /"},{"k":"front-door","pillar":"Protocols","pts":12,"title":"Give agents a front door","body":"A Universal Commerce Protocol manifest for shopping, or an MCP server card for everything else. 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