Thinkbot

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Experimental AI thinking and reasoning web crawler bot

User-Agent

Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Thinkbot/0.5.8; +In_the_test_phase,_if_the_Thinkbot_brings_you_trouble,_please_block_its_IP_address._Thank_you.)

Allow Thinkbot in robots.txt

User-agent: Thinkbot
Allow: /

Block Thinkbot in robots.txt

User-agent: Thinkbot
Disallow: /

Blocking stops your content being used for model training. It does not remove you from AI search results — that's governed by separate search/assistant bots.

Official documentation: https://boston.conman.org/2025/08/21.1

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