Overview
Purpose
Surfaces websites in ChatGPT search products.
Exact user-agent token
OAI-SearchBot
robots.txt
Allow example
User-agent: OAI-SearchBot Allow: /
Block example
User-agent: OAI-SearchBot 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.