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Oleg Kulyk

LLM-Assisted Robots.txt Reasoning: Dynamic Crawl Policies Per Use Case

Robots.txt has long been the core mechanism for expressing crawl preferences and constraints on the web. Yet, the file format is intentionally simple and underspecified, while real-world websites exhibit complex, context-dependent expectations around crawling, scraping, and automated interaction. In parallel, large language models (LLMs) and agentic AI workflows are transforming how scraping systems reason about and adapt to such expectations.