Ai2Bot-Dolma user agent
Operated by Ai2
Ai2Bot-Dolma is a user agent reported for Ai2's Dolma dataset, used to train open language models.
The Ai2Bot-Dolma bot at a glance
- Ai2Bot-Dolma is operated by Ai2 and collects public web pages that may be used to train AI models.
- The robots.txt token for Ai2Bot-Dolma is Ai2Bot-Dolma.
- Blocking an AI training crawler has no effect on Google or Bing rankings.
- Ai2Bot-Dolma robots.txt support: Yes.
- Recommendation for Generative Engine Optimization (GEO): Your choice.
What is Ai2Bot-Dolma?
Ai2Bot-Dolma is linked to Ai2’s Dolma open training corpus.
Ai2’s crawler page names AI2Bot; this variant is listed by public registries.
Should you block Ai2Bot-Dolma?
Blocking Ai2Bot-Dolma is a business decision: it protects your content but can lower how well AI products know your brand.
| Effect on search rankings | Blocking an AI training crawler has no effect on Google or Bing rankings. |
|---|---|
| Effect on AI visibility | Blocking keeps your future pages out of that company's training data, so its models may know less about your brand over time. It does not remove you from that company's AI search, which uses a separate bot. |
| Follows robots.txt | Yes |
| Recommendation | Your choice |
How to block or allow Ai2Bot-Dolma
Put the robots.txt rule in the file at the root of every domain and subdomain, for example https://example.com/robots.txt. The token Ai2Bot-Dolma is matched case-insensitively.
robots.txt: block
# Block Ai2Bot-Dolma
User-agent: Ai2Bot-Dolma
Disallow: /robots.txt: allow
# Allow Ai2Bot-Dolma
User-agent: Ai2Bot-Dolma
Allow: /robots.txt: partial
# Keep Ai2Bot-Dolma out of private areas only
User-agent: Ai2Bot-Dolma
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Disallow: /cart/
Disallow: /checkout/
Disallow: /my-account/
Allow: /Nginx
# Nginx: return 403 to Ai2Bot-Dolma
if ($http_user_agent ~* "(Ai2Bot\-Dolma)") {
return 403;
}Apache
# Apache .htaccess: return 403 to Ai2Bot-Dolma
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} (Ai2Bot\-Dolma) [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]Cloudflare WAF
# Cloudflare > Security > WAF > Custom rule, action: Block
(http.user_agent contains "Ai2Bot-Dolma")How to verify real Ai2Bot-Dolma traffic
Ai2 publishes no IP list or reverse DNS pattern for Ai2Bot-Dolma, so the user agent cannot be verified. Anyone can send the same string. Rate-limit unusual volume instead of trusting the name.
How to find Ai2Bot-Dolma in your server logs
Search the web server access log for the token. The command below counts Ai2Bot-Dolma requests per URL on Nginx or Apache.
grep -i "Ai2Bot-Dolma" access.log | awk '{print $7}' | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn | head -20For a full report per AI bot, upload the log to the AI Log File Analyzer, a free tool by Justin Hà.
Ai2Bot-Dolma FAQ
Ai2Bot-Dolma uses the robots.txt token "Ai2Bot-Dolma". Ai2 does not publish a full user-agent string, so match the token inside the User-Agent header.
Yes. Ai2 states that Ai2Bot-Dolma follows robots.txt rules written for the "Ai2Bot-Dolma" token.
Blocking an AI training crawler has no effect on Google or Bing rankings. Blocking keeps your future pages out of that company's training data, so its models may know less about your brand over time. It does not remove you from that company's AI search, which uses a separate bot.
Add two lines to the robots.txt file at the root of each domain and subdomain: "User-agent: Ai2Bot-Dolma" followed by "Disallow: /". The token is case-insensitive. Changes can take up to 24 hours to be picked up.
Not reliably. Ai2 publishes no IP list or reverse DNS pattern for Ai2Bot-Dolma, so anyone can send the same user agent. Rate-limit unusual volume instead of trusting the name.
Search your server access log for "Ai2Bot-Dolma", for example with: grep -i "Ai2Bot-Dolma" access.log. The AI Log File Analyzer by Justin Hà counts visits per AI bot from an uploaded log file.
Sources: Public bot registry. Last reviewed by Justin Hà.
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