Charge AI training crawlers for access (x402 gateway) (#141)

* Charge AI training crawlers for access (@profullstack/x402-gateway)

Training crawlers (GPTBot, ClaudeBot, CCBot, meta-externalagent, Bytespider,
Applebot-Extended) get 402 Payment Required with an x402 offer, or the sales
page at /crawl, and a paid pass opens the site for a day. People, search
engines and retrieval crawlers pass through untouched. robots.txt is now
generated from the same lists.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01YafYxayh7Gqe5MWNNQMev2

* Type the middleware as returning Response | NextResponse

The crawl gateway answers with a plain Fetch Response.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01YafYxayh7Gqe5MWNNQMev2

* Contract test awaits the now-async proxy

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01YafYxayh7Gqe5MWNNQMev2

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Co-authored-by: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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import { gate } from "@/lib/crawl-gateway";
import { NextResponse } from "next/server";
import type { NextRequest } from "next/server";
@ -6,7 +7,13 @@ import type { NextRequest } from "next/server";
// This is the Next 16 "proxy" (formerly middleware) entrypoint.
const ALLOWED_APEX = process.env.PUBLIC_DOMAIN || "logicsrc.com";
export function proxy(request: NextRequest): NextResponse {
export async function proxy(request: NextRequest): Promise<Response | NextResponse> {
// Crawl gateway first: AI training crawlers get 402 Payment Required (or the
// sales page at /crawl) unless they present a paid pass. People, Googlebot
// and retrieval crawlers fall through to everything below.
const answer = await gate(request);
if (answer) return answer;
const host = request.headers.get("host") ?? "";
if (host === `www.${ALLOWED_APEX}`) {
const { pathname, search } = request.nextUrl;