robots.txt Policy Lint — AI Crawler Index

Take a robots.txt you already have and say what it actually does.

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Lint a robots.txt · Would this crawler fetch this path? · Which AI crawlers does this file actually stop? · Diff two robots.txt by effect · checked 1m ago

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Take a robots.txt you already have and say what it actually does. It lints the file against RFC 9309 and reports the errors that silently change meaning, answers whether a named crawler may fetch a named path and which rule decided it, audits which AI crawlers the file really stops (and which it only appears to), diffs two versions by EFFECT rather than by line, and merges a ready-made stance into an existing file without discarding the rules already there. It reads the file you paste; it fetches nothing. robots.txt is a request, not an enforcement mechanism, and the audit says so where a crawler is known to ignore it. Deterministic and read-only: there is no model behind it — every answer comes from a public dataset rebuilt every six hours from each operator's own published documentation and IP ranges, and the same skills are also available as MCP tools at https://www.pathwren.workers.dev/mcp/robots. No key, no signup, no quota. Independent and unaffiliated with any operator it docume

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Lint a robots.txt
Parse a robots.txt you paste and report every fault that makes it do something other than what it looks like: misspelled directives, a full UA string where a product token belongs, rules before any User-agent line, duplicate groups, noindex (unsupported since 2019), relative Sitemap URLs, BOM. Each
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Would this crawler fetch this path?

Evaluate a pasted robots.txt for one crawler and one or more paths under RFC 9309: longest token match for the group, longest path pattern for the rule, Allow breaking a tie, * and $ supported. Returns allowed/disallowed per path with the exact line that decided it, and flags the cases where a merge

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Which AI crawlers does this file actually stop?

Evaluate a pasted robots.txt against every AI crawler in this index and return the two lists that matter: blocked and allowed, per operator and category. Also names the tokens in your file that match no known crawler (a typo blocks nothing) and separates the crawlers that document obedience from the

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Diff two robots.txt by effect

Compare two versions of a robots.txt and report only the crawlers whose verdict actually changes at a given path — not the text difference. Answers 'did my edit do what I meant, and did it do anything else', including sitemap additions and whether the parse errors went up or down. Example: before='U

robots.txt diff review change

Add a ready-made stance to an existing file

Merge one of eight maintained robots.txt stances (block-ai-training, allow-ai-search-only, block-all-ai, block-datasets, block-disputed, block-seo-tools, allow-all, maximum-ai-visibility) into a robots.txt you already have, without touching a single rule you wrote: a token you already name keeps you

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Who is calling? (no arguments)

Takes no arguments. Safe to call. Deterministic. Touches no third party. Classifies the request you just sent: the user-agent you claim, the address you came from, the class this host's own instrument books you as, whether we have seen you here before and what you fetched, and what this host's robot

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Run this server's worked example (no arguments)

Takes no arguments. Safe to call. Deterministic. Touches no third party. Runs this server's own worked example end to end — one of its real tools, on a canned input taken from this host's own published data — and returns exactly the structuredContent a real call returns, not a mock and not a descrip

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Crawler IP Verifier — AI Crawler Index

Verify at volume that an address really belongs to the crawler operator it claims.

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