What is Trae?
Trae is an AI-powered coding agent developed by ByteDance that can understand codebases, fetch web content, and generate code. You can set up Agent Analytics to see when Trae visits your website.
Category
| Example User Agent | Trae-Agent |
| Operated By | ByteDance |
| Source | Official Website |
| Triggered By | User action |
| Used for AI Model Training | Not expected |
| Affects AI Chat & Search Visibility | Possibly |
| Expected To Follow Robots.txt | Yes |
Why Is Trae Visiting My Website?
A developer is working with a product or technology you document. Trae retrieved your documentation, API reference, or examples because they were relevant to the code being written.
Should I Block Trae?
Allow Trae 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, 8% of the top websites we track currently have robots.txt rules for Trae.
How Do I Block Trae Using Robots.txt?
Add this rule to your robots.txt file to block Trae from accessing your 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: Trae # https://knownagents.com/agents/trae
Disallow: /Insights for Trae
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
Country of Origin
Robots.txt Blocked Percentage
Trae Traffic
Frequently Asked Questions
What Traffic Patterns Should I Expect From Trae?
Trae 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.
Does Trae Follow Robots.txt Rules?
Trae 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 Trae respects it.
Is Trae Used for AI Model Training?
Not ordinarily. Trae is not categorized as an AI training scraper or data provider, so AI model training is not its expected purpose.
Does Blocking Trae Affect AI Search or Citations?
Blocking Trae can keep your documentation out of answers it gives developers. It does not directly affect general AI search indexes or traditional search rankings.
Does Trae Access Private Content?
Not unless a developer explicitly provides credentials. Trae otherwise reads only public documentation, references, and code examples.
How Can I Verify a Request From Trae?
Agent Analytics tracks Trae visits in real time. You can also check your server logs for requests whose user-agent string contains "Trae". Look for clustered requests across documentation, API reference, and code example pages. Because Trae does not publish a verification method, any client can claim its identity and a log match is only a clue.
How Is Trae Different From Other ByteDance Agents?
ByteDance operates separate agents for different purposes, so each agent should be evaluated and controlled independently.
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