AI search · Kagi
Kagibot
Crawls for Kagi's paid search engine and its Assistant. Kagi documents honouring robots.txt.
- Operator
- Kagi
- Purpose
- AI search indexers
- 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.
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.
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.
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.