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# Elicit-Bot

Elicit-Bot is Elicit's fetches when a user asks crawler token. Blocking it costs points in the AI readiness score. 6.7% of the top 1,000 websites with a robots.txt block it.

A community-listed token for Elicit's research assistant fetching papers and pages. No vendor documentation was found.

## Where this comes from

- **Community-listed; no vendor documentation.** No vendor page names this token.
- **Robots.txt behaviour undocumented.**
- **Counted in the readiness score.** It can keep a site out of AI search or answers, so a block costs points.

## In the top 1,000 websites

- **6.7% block it in robots.txt** (38 of the 569 sites with a robots.txt), as of 2026-10-12.
- Method, limits and the full data: [the October 2026 study of the top 1,000 websites](https://www.crawlreadiness.com/research/ai-crawler-access-october-2026).

## What blocking it costs

A rule may not stop it: Elicit-Bot fetches a page because a person asked about it, and its vendor says such fetches can bypass robots.txt. Where it does honour the rule, the assistant cannot read your page when asked. The score counts it, so a block costs points.

## The robots.txt lines

To let it in (a group that names the crawler replaces any wildcard rules for it, so this also lifts a `User-agent: *` block):

```
User-agent: Elicit-Bot
Allow: /
```

To keep it out:

```
User-agent: Elicit-Bot
Disallow: /
```

A rule in robots.txt is a request. Whether this crawler honours it is undocumented. The [robots.txt generator](https://www.crawlreadiness.com/tools/robots-txt) writes a whole file with the same split: block the training crawlers, keep the search and answer crawlers.

## Does Elicit-Bot get through on your site?

[Run the free check](https://www.crawlreadiness.com/): it reads your robots.txt against all 51 crawlers and tells you which ones can read you, and what to change.

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Source: https://www.crawlreadiness.com/crawlers/elicit-bot