# Reflectionbot: Reflection AI's training crawler

> Reflectionbot is Reflection AI's training crawler. What it reads for, its user agent, whether it follows robots.txt, and how to verify and allow it.

Canonical: https://picked.so/ai-crawlers/reflectionbot
Last updated: 2026-10-16

Reflectionbot is Reflection AI's crawler. It visits public pages to help build and improve Reflection AI's models.

|  |  |
| --- | --- |
| robots.txt token | `Reflectionbot` |
| Company | Reflection AI |
| What it's for | Training |
| Follows robots.txt | Follows it |
| Verify | IP list: https://reflection.ai/bot/ips.json |
| Owner's documentation | https://reflection.ai/bot |

## User agent

```
Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; Reflectionbot/1.0; +https://reflection.ai/bot) Chrome/151.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
```

## Blocking it

Reflection AI says Reflectionbot reads and honors robots.txt, picking up changes within about a day, and recommends that over answering it with 403.

## Frequently asked questions

### What is Reflectionbot?

Reflectionbot is Reflection AI's crawler. It visits public pages to help build and improve Reflection AI's models.

### Does Reflectionbot follow robots.txt?

Reflection AI says Reflectionbot reads and honors robots.txt, picking up changes within about a day, and recommends that over answering it with 403.

### How do I check a Reflectionbot visit is real?

Check the visitor's IP against the list Reflection AI publishes. A request outside it isn't Reflectionbot, whatever its user agent says.

### Should I allow Reflectionbot?

Allowing it lets your future pages into what the model learns, which is how it knows your brand before it searches. Opting out is a choice you can make if your content is your product: search and live-answer bots run under other names, so it doesn't take you out of today's answers.