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DuckAssistBot

AI Assistant / Agent DuckDuckGo robots.txt behaviour unknown

DuckDuckGo assistant bot for web crawling and search

User-Agent

DuckAssistBot/1.2; (+http://duckduckgo.com/duckassistbot.html)

Allow DuckAssistBot in robots.txt

User-agent: DuckAssistBot
Allow: /

Block DuckAssistBot in robots.txt

User-agent: DuckAssistBot
Disallow: /

Blocking prevents the assistant from reading your pages when users ask about them — links to your site will fail inside the AI product.

Official documentation: https://duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/results/duckassistbot

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