Mintlify

mintlify.com

Allows AI

Its robots.txt (the public rules file for bots) has no rules for any AI bot we track. They are covered by its catch-all rule (User-agent: *), which lets them into the site.

Last checked 19 Oct 2026. Rules file read today. Everything we checked · History

Bots that train AI Allowed

0 of 9 blocked

Blocking these keeps the site out of future AI training. It does not stop AI from reading the site to answer questions.

Bots for AI search Allowed

0 of 8 blocked

Blocking these usually means the site stops showing up as a source in AI answers.

AI assistants Allowed

0 of 7 blocked

5 of these 7 companies say their assistants may ignore robots.txt.

Bot by bot

AI bot	Allowed?	Where the rule is	Company says it follows robots.txt?
Bots that train AI · Allowed
GPTBotOpenAI	Allowed	Not named; the catch-all rule applies	Says yes
ClaudeBotAnthropic	Allowed	Not named; the catch-all rule applies	Says yes
Google-ExtendedGoogle · opt-out name, not a bot	Allowed	Not named; the catch-all rule applies	Says yes
Applebot-ExtendedApple · opt-out name, not a bot	Allowed	Not named; the catch-all rule applies	Says yes
CCBotCommon Crawl	Allowed	Not named; the catch-all rule applies	Says yes
Meta-ExternalAgentMeta	Allowed	Not named; the catch-all rule applies	Suggests yes
BytespiderByteDance	Allowed	Not named; the catch-all rule applies	No statement found
MistralAI-TrainingMistral AI	Allowed	Not named; the catch-all rule applies	Says yes
AI2BotAllen Institute for AI	Allowed	Not named; the catch-all rule applies	Does not say
anthropic-aiAnthropic (legacy) · old name	Allowed	Not named; the catch-all rule applies	Unknown
Bots for AI search · Allowed
OAI-SearchBotOpenAI	Allowed	Not named; the catch-all rule applies	Says yes
Claude-SearchBotAnthropic	Allowed	Not named; the catch-all rule applies	Says yes
PerplexityBotPerplexity	Allowed	Not named; the catch-all rule applies	Suggests yes
AmazonbotAmazon	Allowed	Not named; the catch-all rule applies	Says yes
Amzn-SearchBotAmazon	Allowed	Not named; the catch-all rule applies	Says yes
DuckAssistBotDuckDuckGo	Allowed	Not named; the catch-all rule applies	Says yes
MistralAI-IndexMistral AI	Allowed	Not named; the catch-all rule applies	Suggests yes
Meta-WebIndexerMeta	Allowed	Not named; the catch-all rule applies	Suggests yes
AI assistants · Allowed
ChatGPT-UserOpenAI	Allowed	Not named; the catch-all rule applies	Says not always
Claude-UserAnthropic	Allowed	Not named; the catch-all rule applies	Says yes
Perplexity-UserPerplexity	Allowed	Not named; the catch-all rule applies	Says it mostly ignores it
Google-AgentGoogle	Allowed	Not named; the catch-all rule applies	Says it mostly ignores it
Meta-ExternalFetcherMeta	Allowed	Not named; the catch-all rule applies	Says not always
Amzn-UserAmazon	Allowed	Not named; the catch-all rule applies	Says not always
MistralAI-UserMistral AI	Allowed	Not named; the catch-all rule applies	Suggests yes
For comparison
GooglebotRegular search engine, for comparison	Allowed	Not named; the catch-all rule applies
BingbotRegular search engine, for comparison	Allowed	Not named; the catch-all rule applies

We test two pages: the homepage, and a made-up page that stands in for the rest of the site. "Blocked" means both are off limits. "Some pages blocked" means only one is. Rules for search results, carts, checkout and accounts don't change these labels, because almost every site keeps all bots out of those pages.

The rules file (robots.txt)

robots.txt · 5 linesSource

User-agent: *Allow: / Sitemap: https://www.mintlify.com/sitemap.xml

Everything else we checked

Front door	Let in The homepage loaded normally for our bot, which says who it is (HTTP 200).GET https://www.mintlify.com/ as WalledWebBot, from a residential connection in the United States
llms.txt	Present · 6.4 KB · "Mintlify" · 41 linkshttps://www.mintlify.com/llms.txt
Page tags	`<meta name="robots" content="index, follow">` `<meta name="googlebot" content="index, follow, max-image-preview:large">`
Anti-bot software	Served through Cloudflare. The homepage set a Cloudflare Bot Management cookie (__cf_bm), which anti-bot software uses.From response headers and cookie names only. A cookie shows the product is there, not how it is set up.
Readable by AI	No schema.org structured data on the homepage. Most of the page is script; an agent that does not run JavaScript sees little text. Built on Next.js.Homepage only. Useful for site owners; not part of the result.
Terms of Service	www.mintlify.com/legal/terms (found on the homepage) Sentences flagged by keyword. These are machine-selected excerpts, not a legal reading; open the source for context. Mintlify represents and warrants that (i) all third-party AI and LLM service providers are prohibited and do not use, store, or retain Customer Data for training, improving, or developing their models, services, or algorithms, and (ii) all Customer Data processed through AI or LLM services is proces…matched "AI" · reads like a restriction Customer acknowledges that certain Service features may utilize AI or LLM technologies to process Customer Data in real-time to deliver functionality such as search, content generation, or semantic analysis, and such processing is permitted under this Agreement provided no training or model improvem…matched "AI" · reads like a restriction … a good faith belief that use of the material in the manner complained of is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law; andmatched "agent" · reads like a restriction Mintlify will not use Customer Data to train, fine-tune, improve, or develop any large language models (LLMs), generative AI models, machine learning models, or other artificial intelligence systems, whether proprietary to Mintlify or provided by third parties.matched "large language models" · reads like a restriction
Not found	No ai.txt, tdmrep.json, Content-Signal or Content-Usage lines or licensing signals (RSL License, HTTP 402).

History

19 versions on record since 19 Dec 2024

One square per month, from Internet Archive copies and our own daily checks. Dark: blocked. Gray: some blocked. Light: allowed. Striped: no copy that month.

No AI-relevant changes in 19 recorded versions since 19 Dec 2024.

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