Overview
AgentTrust Collector is a legacy agent discovery crawler associated with agenttru.st and used for ai agent discovery.
The primary identifying User-Agent token is AgentTrust-Collector. Representative HTTP request identity: AgentTrust-Collector/1.0 (+https://agenttru.st/crawler; purpose=AI Agent Discovery; contact=admin@agenttru.st).
Directory status: Legacy. Identity classification: Verified with High confidence. Identity type: official documented.
This identity is recorded as honoring robots.txt under agenttrust-collector.
Risk classification: Neutral. Evaluate request context and site policy before allowing, rate-limiting, or blocking.
Identity
- User-Agent Pattern
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AgentTrust-Collector - Aliases
- agenttrust-collector
- HTTP Agent Examples
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AgentTrust-Collector/1.0 (+https://agenttru.st/crawler; purpose=AI Agent Discovery; contact=admin@agenttru.st) - Robots Token
- agenttrust-collector
- Identity Type
- Officially documented
- Evidence Method
- Match `AgentTrust-Collector` as the claimed identity signal and corroborate it with stronger request or network signals when authentication matters.
Classification
- Type
- AI
- Kind
- Legacy agent discovery crawler
- Family
- AgentTrust
- Purpose
- AI agent discovery
Behavior and handling
- Common Use
- historical agenttru.st discovery traffic retained for legacy matching; the crawler now uses the AgentTrustBot identity
- Detection Notes
- Match the `AgentTrust-Collector` User-Agent identity and consider the recorded alternate tokens.
- Respects robots.txt
- Yes
- Spoofing Risk
- The `AgentTrust-Collector` User-Agent can be copied by unrelated clients. Treat it as a claimed identity unless corroborated by stronger signals.
- Risk
- Neutral
- Recommended Handling
- Depends
Rules and controls
- Robots.txt Snippet
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User-agent: agenttrust-collector Disallow: / - Apache Rule
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RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} AgentTrust-Collector [NC] RewriteRule .* - [F,L] - Nginx Rule
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if ($http_user_agent ~* "AgentTrust-Collector") { return 403; }
Relationships
- Operator
- agenttru.st Checked 2026-10-04
Relationships without an Evidence link are normalized from the canonical directory record. They should not be interpreted as independent proof of physical presence or request origin.