Overview
Manus Bot is an AI crawler from Manus used for assistant-driven browsing, page retrieval, and automated web access on behalf of an AI product.
Its primary user-agent pattern is Manus Bot.
Manus Bot is Unverified at the identity-evidence level. The listed identity remains useful for detection, but this record does not currently contain authoritative evidence sufficient to authenticate the identity claim.
Robots.txt behavior is not currently confirmed.
Manus Bot should be handled according to the site owner’s AI crawler policy, with allow, block, or rate-limit rules applied deliberately.
Identity
- User-Agent Pattern
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Manus Bot - HTTP Agent Examples
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Manus Bot - Robots Token
- Manus Bot
- Identity Type
- Observed
- Evidence Method
- Treat `Manus Bot` as an identity signal only. Confirm it with current operator documentation, cryptographic verification, forward-confirmed reverse DNS, source-network ownership, or other authoritative evidence before trusting the claimed identity.
Classification
- Type
- AI
- Kind
- Fetcher
- Family
- Manus
- Operator
- Manus
- Company
- Manus
- Purpose
- AI assistant
Behavior and handling
- Common Use
- Manus Bot is used for assistant-driven browsing, page retrieval, and automated web access on behalf of an AI product.
- Detection Notes
- Manus Bot traffic is primarily detected by the `Manus Bot` user-agent pattern. Compare source IPs, reverse DNS, request paths, and crawl cadence with Manus infrastructure before trusting the traffic.
- Respects robots.txt
- Unknown
- Spoofing Risk
- Manus Bot has medium spoofing risk because user-agent strings can be copied; pair the match with DNS, IP, behavior, or operator evidence.
- Risk
- Neutral
- Recommended Handling
- Depends
Rules and controls
- Robots.txt Snippet
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# robots.txt behavior is unconfirmed. Do not rely on this rule without verification.