Autonomous agents

Reflectionbot

Reflectionbot is a bot operated by Reflection that browses the web on its own to finish multi-step tasks. An undocumented crawler whose user agent links to Reflection, a company that builds AI models. 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.

ReflectionClaim onlyrobots.txt:No policy

Live check

Verify an IP that claimed to be Reflectionbot

No operator check exists for Reflectionbot. This still shows what the address really is.

Reference

Reflectionbot at a glance

Reference data for the Reflectionbot crawler
User agentReflectionbot

Token only: match on the substring.

OperatorReflection
PurposeAutonomous agents
Respects robots.txtNo policy
Verification methodClaim 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 patternNot published
Robots.txt tokensReflectionbot
Operator documentationNone published

An undocumented crawler whose user agent links to Reflection, a company that builds AI models.

robots.txt

Allow or block Reflectionbot

Paste one at the root of your domain. Rules are per token.

Block Reflectionbot
User-agent: Reflectionbot
Disallow: /
Allow Reflectionbot
User-agent: Reflectionbot
Allow: /
Allow, except the pages you never want quoted
User-agent: Reflectionbot
Allow: /
Disallow: /account/
Disallow: /checkout/
Disallow: /search

Edit the Disallow paths to match your own URLs.

What blocking actually costs you

Blocking Reflectionbot stops automated sessions that fill forms, click through flows and read pages the way a logged-in user would. Rate limits and challenges usually work better here than a robots.txt line.

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FAQ

Reflectionbot questions

What is Reflectionbot?

Reflectionbot is a bot operated by Reflection that browses the web on its own to finish multi-step tasks. An undocumented crawler whose user agent links to Reflection, a company that builds AI models. 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.

Does Reflectionbot respect robots.txt?

Not documented. No operator statement says whether Reflectionbot reads robots.txt, so add the rule but verify in your logs that the requests actually stop.

How do I verify a request really came from Reflectionbot?

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.

How do I block Reflectionbot?

Add the Reflectionbot 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.

Will blocking Reflectionbot hurt my search rankings?

Blocking Reflectionbot stops automated sessions that fill forms, click through flows and read pages the way a logged-in user would. Rate limits and challenges usually work better here than a robots.txt line.

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