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Kagibot

Crawls for Kagi's paid search engine and its Assistant. Kagi documents honouring robots.txt.

Operator
Kagi
Feeds
Kagi Assistant
robots.txt token
Kagibot
Honours robots.txt
Honours robots.txt
Documentation
kagi.com

What it looks like in server logs

A representative user-agent string. Version numbers change; the Kagibot token does not. Paste your own log line into the user-agent checker to confirm a match.

user-agent
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Kagibot/1.0; +https://kagi.com/bot)

How to block Kagibot

Add this to the robots.txt at the root of your domain. Robots.txt is advisory: it works only on crawlers that choose to read it. This one is honours robots.txt according to its operator.

robots.txt
User-agent: Kagibot
Disallow: /

To block every ai search indexer at once, or to block training while keeping AI search citations, use the robots.txt generator.

How to allow Kagibot while blocking others

A more specific User-agent group wins over a wildcard. Place this above any User-agent: * block that disallows paths, and Kagibot keeps full access.

robots.txt
User-agent: Kagibot
Allow: /

How to verify a genuine hit

The user-agent string is self-asserted: anyone can send it from a laptop, and scrapers routinely impersonate well-known crawlers to slip past filters aimed at unknown ones.

Kagi publishes the IP addresses its crawler uses.