Bot intelligence record
NovaAct
Review firstNovaAct is an AI crawler from Amazon used for assistant-driven browsing, page retrieval; it appears in server logs as `NovaAct`.
User-Agent Pattern
AmazonNovaAct
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
DependsUse this record as bot intelligence, then verify the request source and behavior before allowing, blocking, or rate limiting.
NovaAct is used for assistant-driven browsing, page retrieval, and automated web access on behalf of an AI product.
Record Details
Structured data- Operator
- Amazon
- Family
- Amazon
- 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 NovaAct by matching `NovaAct` to Amazon evidence, then checking reverse DNS, source-network ownership, signed request data, or published crawler documentation when available.
- Spoofing risk
- NovaAct has medium spoofing risk because the user-agent can be copied, even when the bot has strong source or documentation support.
Notes
- NovaAct is an AI crawler from Amazon used for assistant-driven browsing, page retrieval, and automated web access on behalf of an AI product.
- Its primary user-agent pattern is
NovaAct. - NovaAct is verified with High confidence. The identity type is Observed, and the evidence basis is official operator documentation.
- NovaAct is marked as respecting robots.txt directives for crawler access control.
- NovaAct 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 NovaAct by matching `NovaAct` to Amazon evidence, then checking reverse DNS, source-network ownership, signed request data, or published crawler documentation when available.
- NovaAct traffic is primarily detected by the `NovaAct` user-agent pattern. Compare source IPs, reverse DNS, request paths, and crawl cadence with Amazon infrastructure before trusting the traffic.
- NovaAct is used for assistant-driven browsing, page retrieval, and automated web access on behalf of an AI product.
- NovaAct has medium spoofing risk because the user-agent can be copied, even when the bot has strong source or documentation support.
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