# Google-Agent

AI agent · Cloud agents · Acts for a person · operated by google

**Identity:** Signs its requests (Web Bot Auth).

## How to recognise it

- Signed requests: `Signature-Agent` from `agent.bot.goog`, keys at `https://agent.bot.goog/.well-known/http-message-signatures-directory`
- Published IP list: https://developers.google.com/static/crawling/ipranges/user-triggered-agents.json
- Reverse DNS ends in `googlebot.com`, `google.com`, `googleusercontent.com` (then forward-confirm)
- User agent contains `Google-Agent`

## With Double Agent

Sessions from Google-Agent are labelled `agent` with `agent_id: google.google-agent`, and tagged in your analytics. Nothing is blocked unless you choose to. Install: https://doubleagent.so/install.md

Source: https://developers.google.com/crawling/docs/crawlers-fetchers/google-user-triggered-fetchers · Operator docs: https://developers.google.com/crawling/docs/crawlers-fetchers/google-user-triggered-fetchers