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What is ChatGPT agent?

The cloud browser behind ChatGPT agent and ChatGPT Work, which opens sites and acts for a user. It has no robots.txt token and signs its requests with Web Bot Auth as Signature-Agent: "https://chatgpt.com".

robots.txt token
No token
Operator
OpenAI
Purpose
Agents
Obeys robots.txt
Not stated The operator does not say.
Documented by operator
Yes, on the operator's own pages.
Signature key directory
chatgpt.com/.well-known/http-message-signatures-directory
Documentation
help.openai.com

Cloudflare labels this traffic chatgpt-agent. Dots appears to run in the same browser, but that is inferred from the Dots docs, not stated by OpenAI.

ChatGPT agent has no robots.txt token, so no User-agent rule can target it. Where the operator signs requests with Web Bot Auth, verify the signature and allow or block it at your server or CDN.

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Sources

  1. help.openai.com/en/articles/11845367-chatgpt-agent-allowlisting
  2. learn.chatgpt.com/docs/dots

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