Policy signals

Robots.txt for AI

See which AI user agents appear in robots.txt directives and how publishers are allowing or blocking them.

Current Signal7d
GPTBot830
ClaudeBot733
Google-Extended692
CCBot653

Robots.txt user agents

Updated: 2026-08-31T00:00:00Z

Use this to: check which AI user agents need explicit robots.txt directives.

GPTBot830
ClaudeBot733
Google-Extended692
CCBot653
Bytespider575
meta-externalagent526
Amazonbot499
Applebot-Extended498
PerplexityBot468
ChatGPT-User429
Googlebot398
OAI-SearchBot376
facebookexternalhit369
bingbot280
anthropic-ai277

What To Do

Robots.txt policy analyzer

Check AI user agents against the policy before shipping allow or block rules.

GPTBotAgent policy
ClaudeBotAgent policy
Google-ExtendedAgent policy
CCBotAgent policy
BytespiderAgent policy

Agent policy

7d

Country activity

Use geography as a planning signal before changing crawl policy or regional infrastructure.

Why This Matters

robots.txt is becoming the public negotiation layer between site owners and AI crawlers.

What To Do

  • Name the exact user agents you care about.
  • Separate allow, disallow, and crawl-delay intent.
  • Re-test managed robots.txt features after CDN or WAF changes.
Data source: Cloudflare Radar. Processed by LLMBase for publisher and agent-readiness workflows.