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Cite Files

Cite Files checks whether AI assistants can reach, read and cite a website — testing edge-level crawler blocki

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12+
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English
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llms-full.txt available

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About Cite Files

Most audits read robots.txt and stop. robots.txt is a request, not a control: a site can publish welcoming rules while its CDN returns a challenge to the same crawlers. Cite Files requests each site as a browser and again as GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot and Google-Extended, then compares the answers. Scoring rubric v1.2.0, scanner v1.6.0. The full rubric is published at https://citefiles.com/methodology — no score is ever set by a language model.

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  • How it works
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  • Notes for agents

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Who Is This For?

Developers
Researchers
AI Enthusiasts

AI model wikis, open source model directories, blockchain intelligence, and the AI tool bible — the definitive reference layer for the technology era.

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