Overview
Purpose
Controls use for improving OpenAI generative AI foundation models.
Exact user-agent token
GPTBot
robots.txt
Allow example
User-agent: GPTBot Allow: /
Block example
User-agent: GPTBot Disallow: /
Important limitation
A robots.txt verdict describes the published rule for the tested path. It does not prove crawling, indexing, training, citations or traffic.
Frequently asked question
Does this rule control every product from the same operator?
No. Operators can publish separate user-agent tokens for training, search and user-triggered retrieval. Configure each documented token intentionally.