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Block bots from crawling Mintlify static assets#3

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Block bots from crawling Mintlify static assets#3
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Summary

Adds a custom robots.txt to block bots from crawling Mintlify static asset bundles.

Context

Clarity bot traffic data (Apr 10-16) shows ~200 bot requests/week hitting /mintlify-assets/_next/static/ JS/CSS chunks. These have zero SEO value and waste crawl budget.

Changes

New robots.txt file:

  • Blocks /mintlify-assets/ (JS/CSS/font bundles)
  • Keeps existing /cdn-cgi/ block
  • Preserves sitemap reference

Test plan

  • Verify docs.tracebloc.io/robots.txt returns updated rules after deploy
  • Confirm all docs pages are still crawlable

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Clarity data shows bots (Apple, OpenAI, Google) spending ~200 requests/week
on /mintlify-assets/_next/static/ JS/CSS chunks. These have zero SEO value.

Added custom robots.txt that blocks /mintlify-assets/ while keeping
the existing /cdn-cgi/ block and sitemap reference.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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@LukasWodka LukasWodka requested a review from saadqbal April 29, 2026 11:48
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@LukasWodka the mintlify valiation action is failing. could you please promot in the same context to fix: https://github.com/tracebloc/docs/pull/3/checks?check_run_id=71609026405

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Superseded by #45 — re-cut from current main because this branch was based on an old initial-commit state, and the link-rot failure here referenced files (getting-started/quick-setup, images/tracebloc-workflow-overview.png) that no longer exist on main, so rebasing in place produced unrelated conflicts. Same diff (5-line robots.txt) in #45.

@divyasinghds divyasinghds deleted the fix/robots-txt-block-static-assets branch May 29, 2026 11:07
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