Google-Agent

Google · User-triggered fetchers · json

User-agent: Google-Agent
Disallow: /
robots.txt tokenGoogle-Agent
User-agent containsGoogle-Agent
OperatorGoogle
CategoryUser-triggered fetchers
robots.txtnot governed by robots.txt (user-initiated, by operator policy)
Verify bypublished IP ranges
Published ranges3 IPv4 + 1 IPv6 · json · source

What it is

Agents hosted on Google infrastructure navigating the web and taking actions on a user's request. Google names one prefix list for it — user-triggered-agents.json — and is separately experimenting with Web Bot Auth under the identity https://agent.bot.goog.

What blocking it costs you

Google-hosted agents cannot complete a task on your site for a user who asked them to. This is the agentic-commerce fetch: blocking it removes you from what an assistant can actually do rather than from what it can say.

Full user-agent string

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; Google-Agent; +https://developers.google.com/crawling/docs/crawlers-fetchers/google-agent) Chrome/W.X.Y.Z Safari/537.36

Allow it instead

User-agent: Google-Agent
Allow: /

Operator documentation: https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/google-user-triggered-fetchers
Machine copies: json · markdown
Policies that name this crawler: allow-all · block-all-ai · allow-ai-search-only · block-disputed · maximum-ai-visibility