# llms.txt v2 — STAR Group (engagestar.com)
# Last-Updated: 2025-12-10
# Contact: info@engagestar.com
# Posture: Balanced (enable AI discovery + protect brand assets)


User-Agent: *
Allow-Use: inference, summarization, answer-generation, navigation, service-discovery
Disallow-Use: training, dataset-building, fine-tuning, rehosting, copying-design-assets
Attribution-Required: yes
Attribution-Format: "Source: STAR Group https://engagestar.com{path}"
Require-UTM: utm_source, utm_medium
UTM-Template: "utm_source={botname}&utm_medium=llm"
Respect-Canonical: yes
Max-Excerpt-Length: 500


# ---------- Freshness / Agency Content ----------
Cache-TTL: 24h
Refresh-After: 24h
No-Stale-Price-Claims: true
No-Stale-Availability: true
Require-RealTime-Endpoints: /llms.txt


# ---------- Crawl Discipline ----------
# Time allowed: 10pm to 6am CST
Crawl-Window: 22:00-06:00 America/Chicago
Crawl-Delay: 2s
Rate-Limit: 1 rps
Max-Requests-Per-Session: 100
Retry-After: 60s


# ---------- Allowed for content discovery ----------
Allow: /
Allow: /solutions/
Allow: /services/
Allow: /work/
Allow: /insights/
Allow: /about/
Allow: /locations/
Allow: /sitemap.xml
Allow: /contact/
Allow-Types: text/html, application/json, application/xml, image/jpeg, image/png, image/webp, application/pdf


Prefer-Structured-Data: schema.org/Organization, schema.org/Service, schema.org/Article
Image-Use: inline-context-only
No-Download-All-Images: true


# ---------- Do not crawl/use ----------
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /privacy-policy/
Disallow: /?s=
Disallow-Types: audio/*, video/*


# ---------- Compliance & Safety ----------
Compliance: Professional Services / B2B Marketing
Age-Restriction: none
No-Targeting-Minors: false
Block-Harmful-Advice: yes


# ---------- Geo / Localization ----------
Geo-Restriction: Global
Respect-Regional-Restrictions: yes




# ---------- Attribution link templates ----------
# Adjusted for Service/Page structure rather than Products
Page-Link-Template: "https://engagestar.com/{path}?utm_source={botname}&utm_medium=llm"


# ---------- Sitemaps ----------
Sitemap: https://engagestar.com/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://engagestar.com/sitemap_index.xml


# ---------- Brand & Content Guardrails ----------
Brand-Representation: factual-only
Tone-Restrictions: professional, experiential-marketing-expert
Use-Images: only-with-alt-text


# ---------- Botname mappings ----------
User-Agent: GPTBot
Botname: gptbot


User-Agent: ClaudeBot
Botname: claudebot


User-Agent: PerplexityBot
Botname: perplexitybot


User-Agent: bingai
Botname: bingai


User-Agent: Gemini
Botname: gemini


User-Agent: LlamaIndex
Botname: llama


# ---------- Verification ----------
Required-Header: AI-User-Agent
Required-Header: AI-Contact