About this bot
AgentTrustBot is a agent discovery crawler associated with agenttru.st and used for ai agent discovery.
The primary identifying User-Agent token is AgentTrustBot. Representative HTTP request identity: AgentTrustBot/1.0 (id=<visit-id>; +https://agenttru.st/crawler; purpose=AI Agent Discovery; contact=admin@agenttru.st).
Directory status: Active. Identity classification: Verified with High confidence. Identity type: official documented.
This identity is recorded as honoring robots.txt under agenttrustbot.
Risk classification: Neutral. Evaluate request context and site policy before allowing, rate-limiting, or blocking.
How to identify this bot
- User-agent and crawler identifiers
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agenttrustbotAgentTrustBot/1.0 (id=; +https://agenttru.st/crawler; purpose=AI Agent Discovery; contact=admin@agenttru.st)AgentTrustBot/1.0 (id=<visit-id>; +https://agenttru.st/crawler; purpose=AI Agent Discovery; contact=admin@agenttru.st)
Details
- Kind
- Agent discovery crawler
- Family
- AgentTrust
- Purpose
- AI agent discovery
- Common Use
- probing published AI-agent metadata and well-known discovery paths for AgentTrust indexing
- Respects robots.txt
- Yes
Verification
- Identity Type
- Officially documented
- Evidence Method
- Match `AgentTrustBot` as the claimed identity signal and corroborate it with stronger request or network evidence when authentication matters.
- Detection Notes
- Match the `AgentTrustBot` User-Agent identity.
Website controls
- Robots.txt Snippet
User-agent: agenttrustbot Disallow: /- Apache Rule
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} AgentTrustBot [NC] RewriteRule .* - [F,L]- Nginx Rule
if ($http_user_agent ~* "AgentTrustBot") { return 403; }