... three. We went through that this week. The AI bot toggle was one of the things we turned off, and it was the right call regardless. But it was not our cause. Our cause was that unmatched dotted paths, /whatever.png, were falling through a route matcher into a locale handler and throwing a 500. Googlebot was being let in and then handed errors, and the symptom in Search Console was indistinguishable from being blocked. So the practical version of "write ... ... site with Googlebot's user agent, and do it against your ugliest URLs rather than the homepage. The homepage is the page everyone tests and the page that is always fine. Mine broke only on paths containing a dot