AI agent directory / DuckAssistBot
DuckAssistBot
Crawler from DuckDuckGo
Fetches pages to write DuckDuckGo's AI-assisted answers.
| Run by | DuckDuckGo |
|---|---|
| Type | Crawler |
| Purpose | Acts for a person |
| Acts for | A person, in the moment |
| robots.txt token | DuckAssistBot |
| Documentation | DuckDuckGo's documentation |
How Airglow identifies it
- DeclaredIt names itself in the User-Agent:
DuckAssistBot.
Every visit in Airglow says which of these applied, so you can decide how much to trust it.
Seeing it on your site
It reads pages without running JavaScript, so Airglow counts it through a server connection (Cloudflare). It's labeled as context, not replayed.
Allowing or blocking DuckAssistBot
DuckAssistBot reads the DuckAssistBot group in your robots.txt. To keep it out of the whole site:
User-agent: DuckAssistBot Disallow: /
DuckDuckGo runs a separate bot for each purpose, so blocking DuckAssistBot doesn't block its other agents listed below.
Airglow shows, for every agent that visits, whether your robots.txt lets it in, and helps you write rules by purpose (training, search, acting for a person).
Other agents from DuckDuckGo
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