s published description of the name. The twelve are the names merchants Merchants are told two opposite things about AI crawlers: block them, because they take your content and give nothing back; and admit them, because that is how a store gets into an AI shopping answer. Method Every store in a corpus of 10,099 known Shopify storefronts has its /robots. The file is parsed the way the major crawlers document parsing it: most specificUser-agentgroup wins,*is the fallback, longest matching path rule wins,AllowbeatsDisallowon a tie. Every store that blocked at least one crawler, or carried the tag, is one row in the CSV at the end.