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Cognition bots and crawlers
Cognition builds Devin, an AI software engineering agent.
Cognition bots at a glance
- Cognition runs 1 bot listed in this directory.
- They belong to: AI Agents.
- Each Cognition bot has its own robots.txt token, so each purpose can be allowed or blocked separately.
- Website: cognition.ai
Every Cognition bot
Block or allow all Cognition bots
The rules below name every Cognition 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 Cognition bots
User-agent: Devin
Disallow: /robots.txt: allow
# Allow all Cognition bots
User-agent: Devin
Allow: /robots.txt: partial
# Keep all Cognition bots out of private areas only
User-agent: Devin
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Disallow: /cart/
Disallow: /checkout/
Disallow: /my-account/
Allow: /Nginx
# Nginx: return 403 to all Cognition bots
if ($http_user_agent ~* "(Devin)") {
return 403;
}Apache
# Apache .htaccess: return 403 to all Cognition bots
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} (Devin) [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]Cloudflare WAF
# Cloudflare > Security > WAF > Custom rule, action: Block
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