What is ReflectionBot?
Reflectionbot is a web crawler operated by Reflection that collects website content to train its open AI models. You can set up Agent Analytics to see when ReflectionBot visits your website.
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| Example User Agent | Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; Reflectionbot/1.0; +https://reflection.ai/bot) Chrome/151.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 |
| Operated By | Reflection AI |
| Source | Official Website |
| Identity |
Verified
Verified Identification
Requests claiming to be this agent can be authenticated using its published verification method. |
| Triggered By | Automated crawl |
| Used for AI Model Training | Yes |
| Affects AI Chat & Search Visibility | Not directly |
| Expected To Follow Robots.txt | Yes |
Why Is ReflectionBot Visiting My Website?
Your content matched the criteria Reflection AI set for a training dataset. ReflectionBot typically discovers pages through external links, sitemaps, and seed lists rather than because someone selected your site individually.
Should I Block ReflectionBot?
Block ReflectionBot if you want more control over whether your work is used for AI training. Allowing it may increase the chance that your brand appears in AI-generated answers, but either choice leaves traditional search rankings unchanged. For context, 8% of the top websites we track currently have robots.txt rules for ReflectionBot.
How Do I Block ReflectionBot Using Robots.txt?
Add this rule to your robots.txt file to block ReflectionBot from accessing your website, or use Automatic Robots.txt to block all AI data scrapers at once. You can customize which pages are blocked by swapping out / for a different path.
User-agent: ReflectionBot # https://knownagents.com/agents/reflectionbot
Disallow: /Insights for ReflectionBot
As of November 9, 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 Compliance
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Robots.txt Blocked Percentage
Frequently Asked Questions
What Traffic Patterns Should I Expect From ReflectionBot?
ReflectionBot tends to make broad, high-volume sweeps across many pages. Timing is unpredictable: traffic may remain heavy throughout a collection pass, then stop entirely.
Does ReflectionBot Follow Robots.txt Rules?
ReflectionBot is expected to follow robots.txt rules, so a disallow rule is the appropriate first step if you want to block it. Automatic Robots.txt can add and maintain that rule, while Agent Analytics lets you verify whether ReflectionBot respects it.
Is ReflectionBot Used for AI Model Training?
Yes. ReflectionBot collects web content for use in AI training datasets. Blocking it limits future collection but cannot remove content that was collected previously.
Does Blocking ReflectionBot Affect AI Search or Citations?
Not directly. Blocking ReflectionBot limits collection for AI training rather than controlling a live AI search index or citation system.
Does ReflectionBot Access Private Content?
Not through legitimate access. ReflectionBot primarily targets public content, but some training-data scrapers also attempt to collect gated or paywalled pages. If content loads without authentication, assume it can be collected.
How Can I Verify a Request From ReflectionBot?
Agent Analytics tracks visits from ReflectionBot and every other known AI agent, crawler, and scraper, then authenticates each visit using ReflectionBot's published verification method. You can also check your server logs for requests whose user-agent string contains "ReflectionBot". Look for high page counts, short gaps between requests, and deep traversal through linked content. A matching log entry alone is not proof because any bot can claim to be ReflectionBot.