xAI-Grok
Another community-listed name for xAI's crawling. xAI documents nothing about it.
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
- 9.3% block it in robots.txt (53 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.
What blocking it costs
xAI / Grok says this token controls more than training, so a block can keep your pages out of its answers or product features. 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: xAI-Grok
Allow: /To keep it out:
User-agent: xAI-Grok
Disallow: /A rule in robots.txt is a request. Whether this crawler honours it is undocumented. The robots.txt generator writes a whole file with the same split: block the training crawlers, keep the search and answer crawlers.
Also from xAI / Grok
GrokBot· AI answersGrok-DeepSearch· Fetches when a user asks
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