What is Devin?
Devin is a software engineering AI assistant that can browse websites and perform web-based tasks, functioning as a collaborative AI teammate for engineering teams. Agent Analytics can track when it visits your website.
Overview
| Operated By | Devin |
| Source | Official Website |
| Expected To Follow Robots.txt | Yes |
| Insights Last Updated | August 11, 2026 |
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Expected Behavior
Devin typically makes several requests within seconds. A single developer leaves quiet gaps, while overlapping sessions can produce steady traffic. Activity comes in short, targeted sessions rather than broad site-wide crawls.
Devin's User Agent
| User Agent | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/137.0.0.0 Safari/537.36; Devin/1.0; +devin.ai |
How To Block Devin With Robots.txt
Add this rule to your robots.txt file to block Devin from accessing your entire website, or use Automatic Robots.txt to block all AI coding agents at once. You can customize which pages are blocked by swapping out / for a different path.
User-agent: Devin # https://knownagents.com/agents/devin
Disallow: /Global Statistics for Devin
As of August 11, 2026, this data reflects agent visits measured across thousands of websites using Agent Analytics, combined with daily scans of the top 1000 websites and their robots.txt files.
Robots.txt Blocked Percentage
Country of Origin
Robots.txt Blocking Trend
3% of top websites block Devin in their robots.txt files.
Overall AI Coding Agent Traffic
0.0% of all web traffic came from AI coding agents.
Frequently Asked Questions
Should I Block Devin?
Allow Devin if developers rely on your documentation or technical content. Blocking it can make your product harder to build with but does not affect traditional search rankings. For context, 3% of the top websites we track currently have robots.txt rules for Devin.
Does Devin Follow Robots.txt Rules?
Yes. Devin is expected to follow robots.txt directives, so a disallow rule is the appropriate first step. Automatic Robots.txt can add and maintain that rule, while Agent Analytics lets you verify whether Devin respects it.
Does Devin Access Private Content?
Not unless a developer explicitly provides credentials. Devin otherwise reads only public documentation, references, and code examples.
Why Is Devin Visiting My Website?
A developer is working with a product or technology you document. Devin retrieved your documentation, API reference, or examples because they were relevant to the code being written.
How Can I Tell if Devin Is Visiting My Website?
Agent Analytics tracks Devin visits in real time alongside every other known AI agent, crawler, and scraper. You can also check your server logs for requests whose user-agent string contains "Devin". Look for clustered requests across documentation, API reference, and code example pages. Because Devin does not publish a verification method, any client can claim its identity and a log match is only a clue.