Codex
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Operated by OpenAI
ai coding agent
Codex is an AI coding agent by OpenAI that helps developers write, review, debug, and ship code.
How to identify it
User-agent contains any of:
Codex
robots.txt
Well-behaved crawlers honor robots.txt. To control Codex:
Allow full access
User-agent: Codex
Allow: /Block entirely
User-agent: Codex
Disallow: /
Grey-area scrapers ignore robots.txt. Botscope enforces your policy at the edge or origin regardless —
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See Codex on your own site
Botscope shows every bot and AI agent hitting your site — and lets you allow, challenge, or block each one. Observe first, enforce when you're ready.
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