Signal

Agent infrastructure reachability

Whether a crawler you allow in robots.txt actually receives your full page - a 200 over HTTPS, not a WAF challenge, rate-limit, or geoblock - rather than being silently turned away.

AffectsDiscoveryEvidenceHypothesisConfidenceLowImpact3/3Last verified

Per-platform status

Where a platform documents relevant behavior, its status and source are shown. Undocumented platforms show "unknown" - honest unknowns, never invented.

PlatformStatusNotesSource
ChatGPTSupportedOpenAI publishes verifiable IP/user-agent endpoints (gptbot.json, searchbot.json, chatgpt-user.json) precisely so you can allow-list the real agents.Source (opens in new tab) · verified 2026-07-08
Gemini / Google AI ModeUnknownNot documented by this platform.-
PerplexityUnknownNot documented by this platform.-
CopilotUnknownNot documented by this platform.-
ClaudeUnknownNot documented by this platform.-

Evidence and sources

This signal is typed hypothesis (Low confidence).

How to act on this

Fetch your own product URL with each vendor's published user-agent and IP range, confirm a 200 (not a challenge), serve everything over HTTPS with no mixed content, and re-test after any WAF or CDN change.

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