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Google-CloudVertexBot
Crawls sites at their owners' request to build Vertex AI Agents on Google Cloud. It has no effect on Google Search or other products.
- robots.txt name
Google-CloudVertexBot- User agent
Google-CloudVertexBot- Category
- Other AI bots: Other automated agents related to AI services.
- Follows robots.txt
- Yes
- Official documentation
- https://developers.google.com/crawling/docs/crawlers-fetchers/google-common-crawlers
- Published IP ranges
- https://developers.google.com/static/crawling/ipranges/common-crawlers.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-CloudVertexBot
Disallow: /To allow it everywhere except one folder:
User-agent: Google-CloudVertexBot
Disallow: /private/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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