DuckAssistBot

DuckDuckGo · AI search crawlers · json

User-agent: DuckAssistBot
Disallow: /
robots.txt tokenDuckAssistBot
User-agent containsDuckAssistBot
OperatorDuckDuckGo
CategoryAI search crawlers
robots.txtobeys robots.txt (documented)
Verify byno published verification method

What it is

Fetches pages so DuckAssist can generate and cite answers inside DuckDuckGo.

What blocking it costs you

No DuckAssist answers or citations from your site. Ordinary DuckDuckGo results are unaffected.

Full user-agent string

Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; DuckAssistBot/1.0; +https://duckduckgo.com/duckassistbot)

Allow it instead

User-agent: DuckAssistBot
Allow: /

Operator documentation: https://duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/results/duckassistbot/
Machine copies: json · markdown
Policies that name this crawler: allow-all · block-all-ai · allow-ai-search-only · maximum-ai-visibility