Bot intelligence record
Google Gemini CLI
Review firstGoogle Gemini CLI is an AI crawler from Google used for assistant-driven browsing, page retrieval; it appears in server logs as `Google-Gemini-CLI`.
User-Agent Pattern
GoogleGoogle-Gemini-CLI
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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Handling Guidance
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Google Gemini CLI is used for assistant-driven browsing, page retrieval, and automated web access on behalf of an AI product.
Record Details
Structured data- Operator
- Family
- Type
- Ai
- Purpose
- Ai Assistant
- Identity type
- Observed
- Confidence
- High
- Last verified
- 2026-06-23
- Last checked
- 2026-06-23
- Source type
- Official
- Verification
- Verify Google Gemini CLI by matching `Google-Gemini-CLI` to Google evidence, then checking reverse DNS, source-network ownership, signed request data, or published crawler documentation when available.
- Spoofing risk
- Google Gemini CLI has medium spoofing risk because the user-agent can be copied, even when the bot has strong source or documentation support.
Notes
- Google Gemini CLI is an AI crawler from Google used for assistant-driven browsing, page retrieval, and automated web access on behalf of an AI product.
- Its primary user-agent pattern is
Google-Gemini-CLI. - Google Gemini CLI is verified with High confidence. The identity type is Observed, and the evidence basis is official operator documentation.
- Google Gemini CLI is marked as respecting robots.txt directives for crawler access control.
- Google Gemini CLI 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 Google Gemini CLI by matching `Google-Gemini-CLI` to Google evidence, then checking reverse DNS, source-network ownership, signed request data, or published crawler documentation when available.
- Google Gemini CLI traffic is primarily detected by the `Google-Gemini-CLI` user-agent pattern. Compare source IPs, reverse DNS, request paths, and crawl cadence with Google infrastructure before trusting the traffic.
- Google Gemini CLI is used for assistant-driven browsing, page retrieval, and automated web access on behalf of an AI product.
- Google Gemini CLI has medium spoofing risk because the user-agent can be copied, even when the bot has strong source or documentation support.
https://developers.google.com/crawling/docs/crawlers-fetchers/google-common-crawlers
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