# Claim 78

GPTBot honours robots.txt rules that webmasters set for the GPTBot token.

entity: GPTBot
field: respects_robots_txt
value: yes
statement: GPTBot honours robots.txt rules that webmasters set for the GPTBot token.
evidence_url: https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/bots
evidence_quote: "OpenAI uses OAI-SearchBot and GPTBot robots.txt tags to enable webmasters to manage how their sites and content work with AI."
method: vendor_doc
verified_at: 2026-09-13
confidence: high
status: current
supersedes: none

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