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Butterfly Effect bots and crawlers
Butterfly Effect builds the Manus AI agent.
Butterfly Effect bots at a glance
- Butterfly Effect runs 1 bot listed in this directory.
- They belong to: AI Agents.
- Each Butterfly Effect bot has its own robots.txt token, so each purpose can be allowed or blocked separately.
- Website: manus.im
Every Butterfly Effect bot
| Bot | Group | Purpose | robots.txt | For GEO |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Manus-User | AI Agents | AI agentReported | Not documented | Your choice |
Block or allow all Butterfly Effect bots
The rules below name every Butterfly Effect token in this directory. To block training but keep AI search, delete the search and assistant tokens from the block rule.
robots.txt: block
# Block all Butterfly Effect bots
User-agent: Manus-User
Disallow: /robots.txt: allow
# Allow all Butterfly Effect bots
User-agent: Manus-User
Allow: /robots.txt: partial
# Keep all Butterfly Effect bots out of private areas only
User-agent: Manus-User
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Disallow: /cart/
Disallow: /checkout/
Disallow: /my-account/
Allow: /Nginx
# Nginx: return 403 to all Butterfly Effect bots
if ($http_user_agent ~* "(Manus\-User)") {
return 403;
}Apache
# Apache .htaccess: return 403 to all Butterfly Effect bots
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} (Manus\-User) [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]Cloudflare WAF
# Cloudflare > Security > WAF > Custom rule, action: Block
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