Overview
Mozilla Tabstack is a agent associated with Mozilla, used for programmatic AI-driven retrieval and browser automation.
Its primary user-agent pattern Mozilla-Tabstack; related patterns Mozilla-Tabstack/1.0; Tabstack; representative HTTP user-agent Mozilla-Tabstack/1.0 (+https://tabstack.ai).
Mozilla Tabstack is verified with High confidence. The identity type is Official Documented.
Mozilla Tabstack is documented or strongly corroborated as honoring robots.txt directives.
Mozilla’s Tabstack documentation publishes the token and explicitly explains how website owners can control it through robots.txt.
Treat the user-agent as an identity claim. Corroborate it with operator-controlled IP ranges, reverse DNS, signed-request evidence, or current documentation when available.
Identity
- User-Agent Pattern
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Mozilla-Tabstack - Aliases
- Mozilla-Tabstack/1.0; Tabstack
- HTTP Agent Examples
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Mozilla-Tabstack/1.0 (+https://tabstack.ai) - Robots Token
- Mozilla-Tabstack
- Identity Type
- official-documented
- Evidence Method
- Match `Mozilla-Tabstack` and corroborate the request with current Mozilla documentation, operator-controlled network data, reverse DNS, or signed-request evidence when available.
Classification
- Type
- ai
- Kind
- agent
- Family
- Mozilla Tabstack
- Operator
- Mozilla
- Company
- Mozilla
- Purpose
- user-directed-web-automation
Behavior and handling
- Common Use
- programmatic AI-driven retrieval and browser automation
- Detection Notes
- Detect primarily by `Mozilla-Tabstack`; related patterns include `Mozilla-Tabstack/1.0; Tabstack`; representative HTTP user-agent: `Mozilla-Tabstack/1.0 (+https://tabstack.ai)`. User-agent strings can be copied, so corroborate with stronger evidence before granting trust.
- Respects robots.txt
- yes
- Spoofing Risk
- Mozilla Tabstack has medium spoofing risk because its user-agent can be copied; use published operator-controlled verification data when available.
- Risk
- neutral
- Recommended Handling
- depends
Rules and controls
- Robots.txt Snippet
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User-agent: Mozilla-Tabstack Disallow: / - Apache Rule
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RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} "Mozilla\-Tabstack" [NC] RewriteRule ^ - [F,L] - Nginx Rule
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if ($http_user_agent ~* "Mozilla\-Tabstack") { return 403; }