diff --git a/resources/views/bot.blade.php b/resources/views/bot.blade.php
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..4859039
--- /dev/null
+++ b/resources/views/bot.blade.php
@@ -0,0 +1,60 @@
+<x-layout>
+    <main>
+        <h1>About TroveBot</h1>
+
+        <p>
+            <strong>Trove</strong> is a federated search engine for the small web,
+            seeded by fediverse attention and ranked by domain coherence rather than
+            commercial authority. <strong>TroveBot</strong> is its crawler — it
+            discovers and indexes URLs shared by people on the fediverse, then
+            follows the citations they make to find more of the small web.
+        </p>
+
+        <h2>Identity</h2>
+
+        <p>TroveBot identifies itself with the following User-Agent string:</p>
+
+        <pre><code>TroveBot/0.1 (+https://trove.lvl0.xyz/bot)</code></pre>
+
+        <h2>Crawling behavior</h2>
+
+        <ul>
+            <li>Respects <code>robots.txt</code> rules under <code>User-agent: TroveBot</code> (and the wildcard <code>User-agent: *</code> as a fallback).</li>
+            <li>Polite per-domain rate limit — at most a few requests per minute per host.</li>
+            <li>Follows up to 5 redirects per URL.</li>
+            <li>Fetches HTML only. PDFs, images, and other binary content are recorded as discovered but never re-fetched.</li>
+            <li>Does not execute JavaScript, does not crawl behind authentication, does not crawl URLs containing user credentials.</li>
+        </ul>
+
+        <h2>Opt out</h2>
+
+        <p>
+            Block TroveBot entirely by adding the following to your site's
+            <code>robots.txt</code>:
+        </p>
+
+        <pre><code>User-agent: TroveBot
+Disallow: /</code></pre>
+
+        <p>
+            Or block specific paths:
+        </p>
+
+        <pre><code>User-agent: TroveBot
+Disallow: /private/
+Disallow: /admin/</code></pre>
+
+        <h2>Contact &amp; source</h2>
+
+        <ul>
+            <li>
+                Issues, questions, abuse reports:
+                <a href="https://forge.lvl0.xyz/lvl0/trove/issues">forge.lvl0.xyz/lvl0/trove/issues</a>
+            </li>
+            <li>
+                Source code:
+                <a href="https://forge.lvl0.xyz/lvl0/trove">forge.lvl0.xyz/lvl0/trove</a>
+            </li>
+        </ul>
+    </main>
+</x-layout>
diff --git a/routes/web.php b/routes/web.php
index 5f96afc..6199875 100644
--- a/routes/web.php
+++ b/routes/web.php
@@ -9,3 +9,5 @@
 });
 
 Route::view('/submit', 'urls.submit');
+
+Route::view('/bot', 'bot');
diff --git a/tests/Feature/BotPageTest.php b/tests/Feature/BotPageTest.php
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e544b00
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/Feature/BotPageTest.php
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+<?php
+
+declare(strict_types=1);
+
+namespace Tests\Feature;
+
+use Tests\TestCase;
+
+class BotPageTest extends TestCase
+{
+    public function test_bot_page_renders_at_public_route(): void
+    {
+        $response = $this->get('/bot');
+
+        $response->assertStatus(200);
+    }
+
+    public function test_bot_page_contains_user_agent_string(): void
+    {
+        $response = $this->get('/bot');
+
+        $response->assertSee('TroveBot/0.1 (+https://trove.lvl0.xyz/bot)', escape: false);
+    }
+
+    public function test_bot_page_contains_robots_txt_opt_out_example(): void
+    {
+        $response = $this->get('/bot');
+
+        $response->assertSee('User-agent: TroveBot', escape: false);
+        $response->assertSee('Disallow: /', escape: false);
+    }
+
+    public function test_bot_page_links_to_forge_repository(): void
+    {
+        $response = $this->get('/bot');
+
+        $response->assertSee('https://forge.lvl0.xyz/lvl0/trove', escape: false);
+    }
+}