Atticus
GoodBotVerifiedAGENTHealth assistant: does one website task when a member asks, like booking a visit. Never crawls. Signs via Web Bot Auth. Operated by Atticus Health.
What is Atticus?
Atticus is an AI-driven health assistant developed by Atticus Health to help members navigate healthcare websites. Unlike traditional crawlers that index the web, Atticus operates exclusively on-demand, performing specific actions like booking visits or checking refill statuses only when explicitly triggered by a user. It mimics human interaction patterns and operates at a user-centric pace rather than a high-frequency automated crawl.
Identification
How we rated this bot
Verified by Cloudflare, which confirms who runs it, with no widespread reports of abuse.
What we read
- Crawler without limits: Perplexity ignores robots.txt | heise online
- Meta Has New Web-Crawling Bots That Sneakily Get Around Robots.txt - Business Insider
- 9 Robots.txt Rules Googlebot Ignores Even If You Add Them to Your File
- OpenAI, Anthropic Ignore Rule That Prevents Bots Scraping Web Content - Business Insider
- Google Says Why It May Ignore Robots.txt And Negatively Impact SEO
Why it crawls your site
Atticus does not crawl or index the web for data collection or model training purposes. It visits websites solely to execute functional tasks on behalf of a member. The operator provides transparency by signing requests with HTTP Message Signatures (RFC 9421) and maintaining a public directory of keys, allowing site administrators to verify that the traffic is legitimate and user-authorized.
Block or allow Atticus
Add a Disallow rule for Atticus 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 Atticus from crawling your entire site User-agent: Atticus Disallow: / # Allow Atticus full access User-agent: Atticus Allow: /
Ensure your robots.txt allows Atticus. Verify requests by checking the user-agent string.
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