AI2Bot-DeepResearchEval user agent
Operated by Ai2
AI2Bot-DeepResearchEval is a user agent reported for Ai2's deep research evaluation work.
The AI2Bot-DeepResearchEval bot at a glance
- AI2Bot-DeepResearchEval is operated by Ai2 and fetches a page when a person asks an AI assistant about it or shares its link.
- The robots.txt token for AI2Bot-DeepResearchEval is AI2Bot-DeepResearchEval.
- Blocking an AI assistant fetcher has no effect on search rankings.
- AI2Bot-DeepResearchEval robots.txt support: Not documented.
- Recommendation for Generative Engine Optimization (GEO): Your choice.
What is AI2Bot-DeepResearchEval?
Ai2 uses it to fetch pages while evaluating deep research AI systems.
Ai2’s crawler page names AI2Bot.
Should you block AI2Bot-DeepResearchEval?
Blocking AI2Bot-DeepResearchEval 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 assistant fetcher has no effect on search rankings. |
|---|---|
| Effect on AI visibility | Blocking stops the assistant from reading your page when a user asks about it or pastes your link, so its answer falls back to other sources. |
| Follows robots.txt | Not documented |
| Recommendation | Your choice |
How to block or allow AI2Bot-DeepResearchEval
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-DeepResearchEval is matched case-insensitively. robots.txt alone may not stop AI2Bot-DeepResearchEval, so add the Nginx, Apache or Cloudflare rule as well.
robots.txt: block
# Block AI2Bot-DeepResearchEval
User-agent: AI2Bot-DeepResearchEval
Disallow: /robots.txt: allow
# Allow AI2Bot-DeepResearchEval
User-agent: AI2Bot-DeepResearchEval
Allow: /robots.txt: partial
# Keep AI2Bot-DeepResearchEval out of private areas only
User-agent: AI2Bot-DeepResearchEval
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Disallow: /cart/
Disallow: /checkout/
Disallow: /my-account/
Allow: /Nginx
# Nginx: return 403 to AI2Bot-DeepResearchEval
if ($http_user_agent ~* "(AI2Bot\-DeepResearchEval)") {
return 403;
}Apache
# Apache .htaccess: return 403 to AI2Bot-DeepResearchEval
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} (AI2Bot\-DeepResearchEval) [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]Cloudflare WAF
# Cloudflare > Security > WAF > Custom rule, action: Block
(http.user_agent contains "AI2Bot-DeepResearchEval")How to verify real AI2Bot-DeepResearchEval traffic
Ai2 publishes no IP list or reverse DNS pattern for AI2Bot-DeepResearchEval, 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-DeepResearchEval in your server logs
Search the web server access log for the token. The command below counts AI2Bot-DeepResearchEval requests per URL on Nginx or Apache.
grep -i "AI2Bot-DeepResearchEval" 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-DeepResearchEval FAQ
AI2Bot-DeepResearchEval uses the robots.txt token "AI2Bot-DeepResearchEval". Ai2 does not publish a full user-agent string, so match the token inside the User-Agent header.
Ai2 has not documented how AI2Bot-DeepResearchEval treats robots.txt. Add a robots.txt rule and back it with a server rule if the traffic matters to you.
Blocking an AI assistant fetcher has no effect on search rankings. Blocking stops the assistant from reading your page when a user asks about it or pastes your link, so its answer falls back to other sources.
Add two lines to the robots.txt file at the root of each domain and subdomain: "User-agent: AI2Bot-DeepResearchEval" 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-DeepResearchEval, so anyone can send the same user agent. Rate-limit unusual volume instead of trusting the name.
Search your server access log for "AI2Bot-DeepResearchEval", for example with: grep -i "AI2Bot-DeepResearchEval" 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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