Coding agents
Code is a bot operated by GitHub Copilot that pulls documentation and examples while an AI writes code. Code (GitHub Copilot) is an AI coding agent that can autonomously plan, build, and execute development tasks, functioning as a collaborative AI pair programmer. No IP range list or reverse-DNS convention is published, so a request carrying this user agent cannot be proven genuine and a robots.txt rule alone will not stop a forgery.
Request says
"Code"
Checked against
Nothing published
Live check
No operator check exists for Code. This still shows what the address really is.
Reference
| User agent | CodeToken only: match on the substring. |
|---|---|
| Operator | GitHub Copilot |
| Purpose | Coding agents |
| Respects robots.txt | No policy |
| Verification method | Claim onlyNone published, user agent only No IP range file and no reverse-DNS convention have been published for this agent. The user-agent string is the only signal, and any client can send it, so treat a match as a claim rather than proof. |
| Crawl pattern | Not published |
| Robots.txt tokens | Code |
| Operator documentation | None published |
Code (GitHub Copilot) is an AI coding agent that can autonomously plan, build, and execute development tasks, functioning as a collaborative AI pair programmer.
robots.txt
Paste one at the root of your domain. Rules are per token.
User-agent: Code
Disallow: /User-agent: Code
Allow: /User-agent: Code
Allow: /
Disallow: /account/
Disallow: /checkout/
Disallow: /searchEdit the Disallow paths to match your own URLs.
Blocking Code mainly affects developers reading your documentation through an AI tool. Most sites want that traffic.
Build a file for every crawlerFAQ
Code is a bot operated by GitHub Copilot that pulls documentation and examples while an AI writes code. Code (GitHub Copilot) is an AI coding agent that can autonomously plan, build, and execute development tasks, functioning as a collaborative AI pair programmer. No IP range list or reverse-DNS convention is published, so a request carrying this user agent cannot be proven genuine and a robots.txt rule alone will not stop a forgery.
Not documented. No operator statement says whether Code reads robots.txt, so add the rule but verify in your logs that the requests actually stop.
You cannot, at least not from the request itself. No IP range file and no reverse-DNS convention have been published for this agent. The user-agent string is the only signal, and any client can send it, so treat a match as a claim rather than proof. Compare the source IP against hosting and datacenter ranges instead, and rate limit anything that behaves like a crawler.
Add the Code token to robots.txt with Disallow: /. If the crawler ignores robots.txt, match the user agent at your CDN or reverse proxy and return 403 there instead.
Blocking Code mainly affects developers reading your documentation through an AI tool. Most sites want that traffic.