Overview
GoodForBotsBot checks website pages and public discovery files for AI-agent access and readability.
The operator documents bounded scans, request signing for selected GET and HEAD requests, and robots.txt and Crawl-delay handling.
Identification: GoodForBotsBot.
Operator documentation: https://goodforbots.com/bot.
Identity
- User-Agent Pattern
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GoodForBotsBot - HTTP Agent Examples
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GoodForBotsBot/1.0 (+https://goodforbots.com/bot) - Robots Token
- GoodForBotsBot
- Identity Type
- Officially documented
- Evidence Method
- Check Ed25519 HTTP-message signatures where present against the operator’s public key directory; some ownership and image requests are unsigned.
Classification
- Type
- SEO
- Kind
- AI readiness site scanner
- Family
- Good for Bots
- Purpose
- AI agent accessibility and discovery testing
Behavior and handling
- Common Use
- ai agent accessibility and discovery testing
- Detection Notes
- Match the distinctive GoodForBotsBot token. Confirm network provenance independently.
- Respects robots.txt
- Yes
- Spoofing Risk
- The GoodForBotsBot User-Agent token can be impersonated; confirm provenance before trusting it.
- Risk
- Neutral
- Recommended Handling
- Depends
Rules and controls
- Robots.txt Snippet
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User-agent: GoodForBotsBot Disallow: /
Relationships
- Operator
- Good for Bots Checked 2026-10-22
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.