Cloudflare Launches Bot Preference Sync to Align robots.txt with AI Policies
Cloudflare published Bot Preference Sync on August 21, 2026, a feature that rewrites a site’s robots.txt to match AI crawler training policies set in its dashboard. It also adds disclosure conditions and relies on an enforcement layer (firewall rules, bot management and edge blocks) so crawler access can be permitted or blocked regardless of what robots.txt claims to honor.