Google-Agent: Google's AI agent
Google-Agent is the user agent of AI agents running on Google's infrastructure that browse sites and take actions for a person.
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At a glance
Google-Agent in one table
- Company
- What it's for
- AI agent: an ai agent browsing your site for someone.
- robots.txt token
Google-Agent- Full user agent
- Google publishes the token only, not the full string.
- Follows robots.txt
- May ignore it. Google says its user-triggered fetchers generally ignore robots.txt, because a person asked for the visit.
- How to verify
- Check the visitor's IP against the list Google publishes. A request outside it isn't Google-Agent, whatever its user agent says. The IP list
- Source
- Google's documentation, read on October 12, 2026.
robots.txt
Allow Google-Agent
Allow it. An agent visits to do something for a person, like comparing products or filling in a form. Blocking it stops those tasks on your site.
User-agent: Google-AgentAllow: /Needed only if a wider rule blocks it: robots.txt lets every bot in by default. A bot named in its own group ignores the User-agent: * group, so repeat your private paths there as Disallow lines. A block in your CDN or firewall has to be lifted there.
A rule only changes what the bot reads next. To see whether Google-Agent reads your pages now, and which ones, track AI crawlers on your server or see the full AI crawler list.
Questions
Frequently asked questions
From Google's documentation, read on October 12, 2026.
Google-Agent is the user agent of AI agents running on Google's infrastructure that browse sites and take actions for a person.
Google says its user-triggered fetchers generally ignore robots.txt, because a person asked for the visit.
Check the visitor's IP against the list Google publishes. A request outside it isn't Google-Agent, whatever its user agent says.
Allow it. An agent visits to do something for a person, like comparing products or filling in a form. Blocking it stops those tasks on your site.
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