Glossary

GPTBot

Short answer

GPTBot is OpenAI's documented web crawler user agent; site operators can allow or disallow its access through robots.txt directives.

Published July 25, 2026 By skuwatch editor

What it means

Robots rules are one access signal among many. Allowing a crawler does not guarantee use, ranking, or citation.

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