YandexAdditional

Yandex · AI training crawlers · json

User-agent: YandexAdditional
Disallow: /
robots.txt tokenYandexAdditional
User-agent containsYandexAdditional
OperatorYandex
CategoryAI training crawlers
robots.txtignores the * group; obeys rules named for its own token
Verify byreverse DNS

What it is

The token that controls whether already-indexed pages may appear in Search with Yandex AI answers. Yandex's table says it makes no indexing requests of its own — it exists so a site can opt out of the generative answer without leaving the index.

What blocking it costs you

You disappear from Yandex's AI answers while staying in Yandex Search. This is Yandex's equivalent of Google-Extended, and it is the cheap opt-out most people are looking for.

Full user-agent string

Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; YandexAdditional/1.0; +http://yandex.com/bots)

Allow it instead

User-agent: YandexAdditional
Allow: /

Operator documentation: https://yandex.com/support/webmaster/en/robot-workings/check-yandex-robots
Machine copies: json · markdown
Policies that name this crawler: allow-all · block-ai-training · block-all-ai · maximum-ai-visibility