AI Crawler Readiness Checker
Understand the access policy your site exposes to named AI-related crawler tokens. Check one public URL against robots.txt and inspect page-level directives, while keeping policy permission separate from actual retrieval, training or citation.
Access is a policy. Make it visible.
PUBLIC PAGE / BOUNDED CHECKGood input. Useful output.
Inspect access signals for named AI crawlers.
Try the example, or make it your own.How to use the
AI Crawler Readiness Checker
- 01
Use the exact URL you care about
Robots matching is path-specific. A homepage result cannot establish the policy for /docs/, /private/ or a particular article.
- 02
Read each token separately
The report evaluates GPTBot, OAI-SearchBot, ChatGPT-User, ClaudeBot, Claude-SearchBot, PerplexityBot and Google-Extended against the fetched rules.
- 03
Compare the policy with your intention
Decide which uses you intend to allow. Review provider documentation before editing robots.txt, and check the same URL again after the public file changes.
What the access report evaluates
Google-Extended is evaluated as a robots control token; it is not being presented as a separate HTTP crawler request made by this tool. Likewise, user-triggered retrieval can have different behavior from automated indexing. Read the report as policy evidence, not as a uniform statement about every AI system.
| Observation | How it is checked | Important boundary |
|---|---|---|
| Seven robots access rows | The exact path is evaluated for each listed token. | The tool does not make seven requests while impersonating providers. |
| Indexing / snippet directives | Generic robots meta and X-Robots-Tag are checked for noindex, nosnippet or none. | Provider behavior is not identical across these directives. |
| Public page response | The page must return accessible HTML to OutgleTools. | A successful request from this service does not prove another provider can reach it. |
| Checklist percentage | Each of the eight checks has equal weight. | A restrictive policy may be intentional, so a higher number is not always better. |
Different purposes can have different policies
A publisher might choose to allow a search-oriented token while restricting another token used for a different purpose. This example shows how separate groups express that choice. It is not a recommendation that every site adopt the same policy.
User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
Allow: /
User-agent: GPTBot
Disallow: /For the same path:
OAI-SearchBot robots access: allowed
GPTBot robots access: disallowed
Actual provider retrieval: not measuredAllowed does not mean reachable, used or cited
A crawler can be allowed by robots.txt and still fail because of a firewall, geographic restriction, challenge page, unavailable server or unsupported rendering requirement. The checker does not inspect provider IP traffic or your edge-security settings.
A reachable page can also be ignored, omitted from an answer or never selected for a particular query. This tool cannot observe model training, indexing databases, retrieval logs or citations. Its score summarizes declared access conditions and directives, not the value of your content or the likelihood of being mentioned.
When the checker cannot evaluate the page
Check OutgleTools access too
The service respects its own robots access before fetching the page. If OutgleTools is disallowed, it stops rather than bypassing that policy to inspect other tokens.
Use the final origin
Cross-origin redirects require a fresh run on the destination so its robots file can be reviewed. Do not infer one host's policy from another host's file.
Inspect bot protection separately
Use your own server or CDN logs to investigate provider requests. A user-agent string by itself does not authenticate a crawler.
Treat absent and unavailable differently
A confirmed missing robots file and a file that timed out are not equivalent evidence. The service stops when it cannot reliably verify the crawl policy.
AI Crawler Readiness Checker:
questions, answered.
Does a failed robots-access row mean my SEO is broken?
Not necessarily. Restricting a particular token may be your intended policy. Judge the row against that decision rather than optimizing every access score to 100.
Does this checker impersonate GPTBot or ClaudeBot?
No. It evaluates the robots rules for those names using the fetched file. The actual page request is the bounded OutgleTools request.
Why can training and search permissions differ?
Providers can document separate tokens or controls for separate uses. Review those current definitions rather than assuming one AI-related robots rule covers every product behavior.
Can this prove that AI systems have indexed my page?
No. Robots access is only a policy signal. Indexing, retrieval and answer citation require different evidence that this tool does not collect.
The calculations and checks above describe this tool's implementation. Use these primary references for the underlying formats and publishing guidance.
OpenAI crawler definitions ↗ (opens in a new tab)Google common crawler and control tokens ↗ (opens in a new tab)Make the policy match your intention.
Check an exact path, review each token's purpose and verify the public rules after any change.
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