diff --git a/.github/workflows/prod-build.yml b/.github/workflows/prod-build.yml
index 0413b299097e..677b1a148547 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/prod-build.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/prod-build.yml
@@ -301,7 +301,8 @@ jobs:
           yarn build:sw
           yarn build:client
           yarn build:ssr
-          yarn tool:legacy build-robots-txt
+
+          cp assets/prod/robots.txt client/build/robots.txt
 
           yarn rari content sync-translated-content
           yarn rari git-history
diff --git a/.github/workflows/stage-build.yml b/.github/workflows/stage-build.yml
index 57561d91e1b8..6ec334e75366 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/stage-build.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/stage-build.yml
@@ -317,7 +317,8 @@ jobs:
           yarn build:sw
           yarn build:client
           yarn build:ssr
-          yarn tool:legacy build-robots-txt
+
+          cp assets/nonprod/robots.txt client/build/robots.txt
 
           yarn rari content sync-translated-content
           yarn rari git-history
diff --git a/.github/workflows/test-build.yml b/.github/workflows/test-build.yml
index 2cd1af2f94d8..02e541442f9d 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/test-build.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/test-build.yml
@@ -256,7 +256,8 @@ jobs:
           yarn build:sw
           yarn build:client
           yarn build:ssr
-          yarn tool:legacy build-robots-txt
+
+          cp assets/nonprod/robots.txt client/build/robots.txt
 
           yarn rari content sync-translated-content
           yarn rari git-history
diff --git a/assets/nonprod/robots.txt b/assets/nonprod/robots.txt
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..d08d2f12524b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/assets/nonprod/robots.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+User-Agent: *
+
+Disallow: /
diff --git a/assets/prod/robots.txt b/assets/prod/robots.txt
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..b1cc531f395a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/assets/prod/robots.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+User-agent: *
+Sitemap: https://developer.mozilla.org/sitemap.xml
+
+Disallow: /api/
+Disallow: /*/files/
+Disallow: /media
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 62e214deec44..8384db628413 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -27,8 +27,8 @@
     "build:legacy::curriculum": "cross-env NODE_ENV=production NODE_OPTIONS=\"--no-warnings=ExperimentalWarning --loader ts-node/esm\" node build/build-curriculum.ts",
     "build:legacy::docs": "cross-env NODE_ENV=production NODE_OPTIONS=\"--no-warnings=ExperimentalWarning --loader ts-node/esm\" node build/cli.ts -n",
     "build:legacy:blog": "cross-env NODE_ENV=production NODE_OPTIONS=\"--no-warnings=ExperimentalWarning --loader ts-node/esm\" node build/build-blog.ts",
-    "build:legacy:prepare": "yarn build:client && yarn build:ssr && yarn tool:legacy popularities && yarn tool:legacy spas && yarn tool:legacy gather-git-history && yarn tool:legacy build-robots-txt",
-    "build:prepare": "yarn build:client && yarn build:ssr && yarn tool:legacy build-robots-txt",
+    "build:legacy:prepare": "yarn build:client && yarn build:ssr && yarn tool:legacy popularities && yarn tool:legacy spas && yarn tool:legacy gather-git-history",
+    "build:prepare": "yarn build:client && yarn build:ssr",
     "build:ssr": "cross-env NODE_ENV=production NODE_OPTIONS=\"--no-warnings=ExperimentalWarning --loader ts-node/esm\" node ssr/prepare.ts && webpack --mode=production --config=ssr/webpack.config.js",
     "build:sw": "cd client/pwa && yarn && yarn build:prod",
     "build:sw-dev": "cd client/pwa && yarn && yarn build",
diff --git a/testing/tests/index.test.ts b/testing/tests/index.test.ts
index 7477365dd400..14837bee70d2 100644
--- a/testing/tests/index.test.ts
+++ b/testing/tests/index.test.ts
@@ -1177,17 +1177,6 @@ test("built search-index.json (en-US)", () => {
   expect(urlToTitle.get("/en-US/docs/Web/Foo")).toBe("<foo>: A test tag");
 });
 
-test("the robots.txt file was created", () => {
-  const filePath = path.join(buildRoot, "robots.txt");
-  const text = fs.readFileSync(filePath, "utf-8");
-  // The content of robots file when it's in production mode is
-  // to ONLY say `Disallow: /api/`.
-  // When the robots file is for disallowing everything it
-  // will ONLY say `Disallow: /`.
-  expect(text).toContain("Disallow: /api/");
-  expect(text).not.toContain("Disallow: /\n");
-});
-
 test("duplicate IDs are de-duplicated", () => {
   const builtFolder = path.join(
     buildRoot,
diff --git a/tool/build-robots-txt.ts b/tool/build-robots-txt.ts
deleted file mode 100644
index 3bcd6044f2c0..000000000000
--- a/tool/build-robots-txt.ts
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,28 +0,0 @@
-/**
- * This script generates a /robots.txt file that depends on
- * process.env.BUILD_ALWAYS_ALLOW_ROBOTS.
- *
- */
-import fs from "node:fs";
-
-import { ALWAYS_ALLOW_ROBOTS } from "../libs/env/index.js";
-
-const ALLOW_TEXT = `
-User-agent: *
-Sitemap: https://developer.mozilla.org/sitemap.xml
-
-Disallow: /api/
-Disallow: /*/files/
-Disallow: /media
-`;
-
-const DISALLOW_TEXT = `
-User-Agent: *
-
-Disallow: /
-`;
-
-export async function runBuildRobotsTxt(outfile: string) {
-  const content = ALWAYS_ALLOW_ROBOTS ? ALLOW_TEXT : DISALLOW_TEXT;
-  fs.writeFileSync(outfile, `${content.trim()}\n`, "utf-8");
-}
diff --git a/tool/cli.ts b/tool/cli.ts
index e8808ff68470..c1a5e3f43628 100644
--- a/tool/cli.ts
+++ b/tool/cli.ts
@@ -25,13 +25,11 @@ import { buildDocument, gatherGitHistory, buildSPAs } from "../build/index.js";
 import { isValidLocale } from "../libs/locale-utils/index.js";
 import type { Doc } from "../libs/types/document.js";
 import {
-  ALWAYS_ALLOW_ROBOTS,
   BUILD_OUT_ROOT,
   CONTENT_ROOT,
   CONTENT_TRANSLATED_ROOT,
 } from "../libs/env/index.js";
 import { runMakePopularitiesFile } from "./popularities.js";
-import { runBuildRobotsTxt } from "./build-robots-txt.js";
 import { syncAllTranslatedContent } from "./sync-translated-content.js";
 import { macroUsageReport } from "./macro-usage-report.js";
 import * as kumascript from "../kumascript/index.js";
@@ -176,15 +174,6 @@ interface PopularitiesActionParameters extends ActionParameters {
   logger: Logger;
 }
 
-interface BuildRobotsTxtActionParameters extends ActionParameters {
-  options: {
-    outfile: string;
-    maxUris: number;
-    refresh: boolean;
-  };
-  logger: Logger;
-}
-
 interface MacrosActionParameters extends ActionParameters {
   args: {
     cmd: string;
@@ -869,28 +858,6 @@ program
     })
   )
 
-  .command(
-    "build-robots-txt",
-    "Generate a robots.txt in the build root depending ALWAYS_ALLOW_ROBOTS"
-  )
-  .option("--outfile <path>", "name of the generated file", {
-    default: path.join(BUILD_OUT_ROOT, "robots.txt"),
-  })
-  .action(
-    tryOrExit(async ({ options, logger }: BuildRobotsTxtActionParameters) => {
-      const { outfile } = options;
-      await runBuildRobotsTxt(outfile);
-      logger.info(
-        chalk.yellow(
-          `Generated ${path.relative(
-            ".",
-            outfile
-          )} based on ALWAYS_ALLOW_ROBOTS=${ALWAYS_ALLOW_ROBOTS}`
-        )
-      );
-    })
-  )
-
   .command("spas", "Build (SSR) all the skeleton apps for single page apps")
   .action(
     tryOrExit(async ({ options }) => {