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A1-User

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Fetches public web pages at users’ request in the A1 AI assistant; authenticates requests with Web Bot Auth. Operated by A1.

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Assessment
AI Assistant
Category
AGENT
Kind
1
Data sources
AI-generated summary, drawn from Cloudflare, operator docs, and community data

What is A1-User?

A1-User is a specialized agent operated by A1 that functions as a browser-on-demand for users of the A1 AI platform. Unlike autonomous crawlers that index the web for training data, this agent only accesses specific URLs when explicitly triggered by a user's request to read or analyze a page. It maintains transparency by providing a verifiable identity and supporting cryptographic authentication via Ed25519 HTTP Message Signatures.

Helpful — It operates as a transparent, user-initiated proxy for browsing, rather than an autonomous scraper for model training.

Identification

Bot name
A1-User
Operator
A1
Category
AI Assistant
Kind
AGENT
Verification
Verified bot
Cloudflare slug
a1-user
Main use cases
Real-time web page retrieval for AI chatOn-demand content summarizationUser-requested information extraction
Rated Oct 17, 2026 from public evidence

How we rated this bot

Verified by Cloudflare, which confirms who runs it, with no widespread reports of abuse.

Names itself honestly
Yes
Verified by Cloudflare
Yes
Says it follows robots.txt and opt-outs
Not stated
Ignores site rules
None found
Disguises itself or evades blocks
None found
Overloads sites
None found
How widely people complain
No complaint about this bot in the evidence
Reddit discussion
There is no Reddit discussion of this bot in the evidence

What we read

Why it crawls your site

The bot crawls to provide the A1 AI assistant with the current content of a specific webpage requested by a user. By fetching the page in real-time, it ensures the AI can provide accurate, up-to-date summaries or answers based on the live version of the site. Website owners can verify the bot's identity through the public key directory hosted at the operator's domain and can manage access via standard robots.txt or by checking the provided HTTP message signatures.

Block or allow A1-User

Block it

Add a Disallow rule for A1-User in your robots.txt file. You can also block at the server level using your web server configuration or CDN firewall rules to filter requests matching the user-agent string.

# Block A1-User from crawling your entire site
User-agent: A1-User
Disallow: /

# Allow A1-User full access
User-agent: A1-User
Allow: /
Allow & verify

Ensure your robots.txt allows A1-User. Verify requests by checking the user-agent string.

Traffic & trends

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Links & references

A1 documentation
api-staging.aone.dev/bots/a1-user
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Cloudflare Radar: A1-User
radar.cloudflare.com/traffic/bots/a1-user
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Data sources

This profile is compiled from the following sources.

CloudflareRadar
Last updated October 25, 2026

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