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ChatGPT Agent

OpenAI's ChatGPT agent: a browser ChatGPT uses to carry out tasks for a user, such as researching, filling in forms or shopping.

Run by
OpenAI
Type
Autonomous agent
Robots.txt name
ChatGPT Agent
Verifiable
Not yet

What ChatGPT Agent does

OpenAI's ChatGPT agent: a browser ChatGPT uses to carry out tasks for a user, such as researching, filling in forms or shopping.

As an autonomous agent, it uses a website like a person would, clicking, typing and filling in forms to finish a task for someone. The kinds of AI agent that visit websites.

Should you allow it?

Make your journeys work for it. Many browser agents look like an ordinary browser, so you can't reliably block them by name; test whether they can finish your key tasks instead. A decision guide for blocking or allowing AI crawlers.

How to allow or block ChatGPT Agent

ChatGPT Agent reads the ChatGPT Agent group in your robots.txt. To block it everywhere:

User-agent: ChatGPT Agent
Disallow: /

To allow it everywhere, even if another rule blocks other bots:

User-agent: ChatGPT Agent
Allow: /

Robots.txt is a request, not a lock: well-behaved crawlers follow it, impostors don't. Robots.txt for AI agents.

How to tell if it's really ChatGPT Agent

Our registry doesn't verify ChatGPT Agent against published IP ranges yet, so treat a request that uses the name as a claim, not proof: anyone can send its user agent. Check OpenAI's documentation for how to verify it.

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