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ChatGPT agent

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ChatGPT agent is an AI crawler from OpenAI used for AI crawler discovery, assistant retrieval, AI search support, or model-related web access; it appears in server logs as `chatgpt-agent`.

Ai AI Agent Signed Agent Confidence: High Verified: Yes robots.txt: Yes
Operator
OpenAI
Family
ChatGPT agent
Type
Ai
Source type
Official
Last checked
2026-06-23

User-Agent Pattern

OpenAI
chatgpt-agent
Verification note

User-agent strings are identification signals, not proof of identity. Confirm important allow, block, or rate-limit decisions with logs, DNS or IP evidence, request behavior, or operator documentation when available.

Robots.txt Snippet

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User-agent: chatgpt-agent
Disallow: /

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Handling Guidance

Depends

Use this record as bot intelligence, then verify the request source and behavior before allowing, blocking, or rate limiting.

ChatGPT agent is used for AI crawler discovery, assistant retrieval, AI search support, or model-related web access.

Record Details

Structured data
Operator
OpenAI
Family
ChatGPT agent
Type
Ai
Purpose
AI Agent
Identity type
Signed Agent
Confidence
High
Last verified
2026-06-23
Last checked
2026-06-23
Source type
Official
Verification
Verify ChatGPT agent with the signed-agent headers and the published operator key material; a matching user-agent alone is not enough.
Spoofing risk
ChatGPT agent has medium spoofing risk when judged only by user-agent, but risk drops when signed-agent verification succeeds.

Notes

  • ChatGPT agent is an AI crawler from OpenAI used for AI crawler discovery, assistant retrieval, AI search support, or model-related web access.
  • Its primary user-agent pattern is chatgpt-agent; related patterns include chatgpt-agent; Signature-Agent: https://chatgpt.com; key directory: https://chatgpt.com/.well-known/http-message-signatures-directory.
  • ChatGPT agent is verified with High confidence. The identity type is Signed Agent, and the evidence basis is official operator documentation.
  • ChatGPT agent is marked as respecting robots.txt directives for crawler access control.
  • ChatGPT agent should be handled according to the site owner’s AI crawler policy, with allow, block, or rate-limit rules applied deliberately.

Evidence and Source

  • Verify ChatGPT agent with the signed-agent headers and the published operator key material; a matching user-agent alone is not enough.
  • ChatGPT agent traffic is primarily detected by the `chatgpt-agent` user-agent pattern; related patterns include `chatgpt-agent; Signature-Agent: https://chatgpt.com; key directory: https://chatgpt.com/.well-known/http-message-signatures-directory`. Compare source IPs, reverse DNS, request paths, and crawl cadence with OpenAI infrastructure before trusting the traffic.
  • ChatGPT agent is used for AI crawler discovery, assistant retrieval, AI search support, or model-related web access.
  • ChatGPT agent has medium spoofing risk when judged only by user-agent, but risk drops when signed-agent verification succeeds.

https://help.openai.com/en/articles/11845367-chatgpt-agent-allowlisting

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