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title: Direct AI crawlers with managed robots.txt · Cloudflare bot solutions docs
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Protect your website or application from AI crawlers by implementing a `robots.txt` file on your domain to direct AI bot operators on what content they can and cannot scrape for AI model training.

Cloudflare's managed `robots.txt` explicitly disallows known bots engaged in scraping for AI purposes and AI agent activity.

AI bots are expected to follow the `robots.txt` directives. Otherwise, they risk getting banned.

To implement a `robots.txt` file on your domain based on your plan:

* Bot Fight Mode

  1. Log in to the [Cloudflare dashboard](https://dash.cloudflare.com/) and select your account and domain.
  2. Go to **Security** > **Bots**.
  3. Select **Configure Bot Fight Mode**.
  4. On **Manage bot traffic with robots.txt**, select the toggle.

* Super Bot Fight Mode

  1. Log in to the [Cloudflare dashboard](https://dash.cloudflare.com/) and select your account and domain.
  2. Go to **Security** > **Bots**.
  3. Select **Configure Super Bot Fight Mode**.
  4. On **Manage bot traffic with robots.txt**, select the toggle.

* Bot Management for Enterprise

  1. Log in to the [Cloudflare dashboard](https://dash.cloudflare.com/) and select your account and domain.
  2. Go to **Security** > **Bots**.
  3. Select **Configure Bot Management**.
  4. On **Manage bot traffic with robots.txt**, select the toggle.

Note

When you enable the `robots.txt` file on your domain, existing `robots.txt` files will be replaced.

## Availability

Managed `robots.txt` for AI crawlers is available on all plans.
