Overview
MachaBot is a knowledge ingestion crawler associated with Macha and used for customer knowledge ingestion.
The primary identifying User-Agent token is MachaBot. Representative HTTP request identity: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MachaBot/1.0; +https://getmacha.com/policies/crawler).
Directory status: Active. Identity classification: Verified with High confidence. Identity type: official documented.
This identity is recorded as honoring robots.txt under MachaBot.
Risk classification: Neutral. Evaluate request context and site policy before allowing, rate-limiting, or blocking.
Identity
- User-Agent Pattern
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MachaBot - HTTP Agent Examples
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Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MachaBot/1.0; +https://getmacha.com/policies/crawler) - Robots Token
- MachaBot
- Identity Type
- Officially documented
- Evidence Method
- Match `MachaBot` as the claimed identity signal and corroborate it with stronger network, DNS, cryptographic, or request-context signals when authentication matters.
Classification
- Type
- AI
- Kind
- Knowledge ingestion crawler
- Family
- Macha
- Purpose
- Customer knowledge ingestion
Behavior and handling
- Common Use
- reading public customer-selected websites as knowledge sources for AI support agents
- Detection Notes
- Match the `MachaBot` User-Agent identity. Treat the User-Agent as a claimed identity unless a stronger verification signal is available.
- Respects robots.txt
- Yes
- Spoofing Risk
- The `MachaBot` 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: MachaBot Disallow: /
Relationships
- Operator
- Macha Checked 2026-10-06
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.