GitHub Copilot Agent
recommended: allow
Operated by Microsoft / GitHub
ai coding agent
GitHub Copilot coding agent — fetches documentation and code references from the web during agentic coding sessions.
How to identify it
User-agent contains any of:
Code/1.
Example user-agent string:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Code/1.115.0 Chrome/142.0.7444.265 Electron/39.8.5 Safari/537.36robots.txt
Well-behaved crawlers honor robots.txt. To control GitHub Copilot Agent:
Allow full access
User-agent: Code/1.
Allow: /Block entirely
User-agent: Code/1.
Disallow: /
Grey-area scrapers ignore robots.txt. Botscope enforces your policy at the edge or origin regardless —
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References
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