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Google-Agent

Used by AI agents hosted on Google infrastructure to navigate websites and carry out actions at a user's request.

robots.txt name
Google-Agent
User agent
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; Google-Agent; +https://developers.google.com/crawling/docs/crawlers-fetchers/google-agent) Chrome/W.X.Y.Z Safari/537.36
Category
AI answers: Fetch a page when someone asks an assistant about it.
Follows robots.txt
No. The company says that because a user requested the fetch, it generally ignores robots.txt rules.
Official documentation
https://developers.google.com/crawling/docs/crawlers-fetchers/google-user-triggered-fetchers
Published IP ranges
https://developers.google.com/static/crawling/ipranges/user-triggered-agents.json

Checked against the official documentation on October 17, 2026.

Block or allow it in robots.txt

Add these lines to the robots.txt file at the root of your domain. To block it everywhere:

User-agent: Google-Agent
Disallow: /

To allow it everywhere except one folder:

User-agent: Google-Agent
Disallow: /private/

This bot does not always follow robots.txt. To keep it out for sure, block it on your server or firewall by user agent and, where published, by IP range.

Is it really this bot?

Anyone can copy a user agent. To be sure a request comes from Google, compare its IP address with the ranges the company publishes.

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