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Release 1.65.16

Release date: May 18, 2026

Release Notes - Seatmap Platform

Version 1.65.16 - 2026-05-18

Release Focus: Restore explicit AI crawler attribution on seatmap.pro by opting into Google AI Overviews, ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, Apple Intelligence, and Meta AI via dedicated robots.txt allowlist entries.

MetaTitle: Release 1.65.16 - Seatmap.pro MetaDescription: Restore explicit AI crawler attribution on seatmap.pro via robots.txt allowlist for major AI surfaces and a clarified llms.txt entry point for AI agents.

What’s Fixed

Explicit AI crawler allowlist in robots.txt

Added explicit Allow: / directives for the major AI crawlers that attribute back to the source: OpenAI (GPTBot, OAI-SearchBot, ChatGPT-User), Anthropic (ClaudeBot, anthropic-ai, Claude-Web), Perplexity (PerplexityBot, Perplexity-User), Google (Google-Extended), Apple Intelligence (Applebot-Extended), and Meta AI (meta-externalagent). Issue: SEAT-993.

Why it matters

  • Google-Extended and Applebot-Extended are opt-in tokens — without explicit allow, Gemini and Apple Intelligence will exclude seatmap.pro content from training and citation. The previous implicit User-agent: * fallback did not satisfy this opt-in requirement.
  • Explicit per-agent allows are policy-visible to anyone reading robots.txt and defend against future restrictive defaults (e.g., Cloudflare’s “Block all AI” toggles).
  • Pre-existing blocks for unwanted AI scrapers (CCBot, cohere-ai, Bytespider, Diffbot, Omgilibot) remain in place.

Clarified llms.txt entry point for AI agents

Added a “Start here for AI agents” pointer at the top of llms.txt, anchoring AI assistants directly to the canonical Complete AI Integration Guide before they navigate the rest of the doc tree.

Why it matters

When an AI coding assistant first ingests llms.txt, the highest-leverage single document is the combined integration guide — it contains everything needed to generate working seatmap.pro integration code without further lookups. Surfacing it as an explicit “Start here” reduces token-budget waste on irrelevant page fetches.

Scope

  • Static-file-only change to knowledge-base/static/robots.txt and knowledge-base/static/llms.txt.
  • No layout, asset, content, API, runtime, or database changes.
  • No deployment-time action required beyond the standard KB re-deploy.

Verification

  • https://seatmap.pro/robots.txt resolves with the new explicit Allow directives for the 11 AI user-agents.
  • https://seatmap.pro/llms.txt resolves with the “Start here for AI agents” pointer above the AI Integration section.
  • After deploy, re-fetch via https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Aseatmap.pro and confirm no robots-blocked URLs are surfaced.