Directory Assistants fetching for a user
Perplexity-User Agent
Acts for a person, operated by perplexity. Fetched because a person asked an assistant.
- Operator
- perplexity
- Does
- Acts for a person
- Traffic
- Many customers’
- robots.txt
Perplexity-User
Identity
Publishes its IP addresses
- SignedSigns every request (Web Bot Auth): cryptographic proof.
- IP listPublishes the IP addresses it comes from.
- Reverse DNSIts IP addresses resolve to the operator’s domain.
- User agentNames itself in its user agent, which anyone can copy.
- HiddenLooks like a person’s browser: detected by behaviour.
How to recognise it
Published IP list
User agent
Contains
Perplexity-User. Anyone can copy it, so it names the client without proving it.
Details
- ID
perplexity.perplexity-user- Category
- Agent
- Operator
- perplexity
- Agent Card
- Not published: this agent doesn’t identify itself with an Agent Card.
- First seen
- 2026-09-28
Registrations
- Catalog Self
- Verified
- 2026-09-28
- Checked
- 2026-09-28
Reputation
Computed 2026-11-13
A score shows from 30%
- Identity40% of the score19 / 100
0 verified sources
A verified Agent Card adds 25 points, 40 if it is signed.
- Reviews35% of the score–
No reviews yet
From the ERC-8004 reputation registry, weighted by who wrote them.
- Observed25% of the score–
Not enough sightings yet
Counts once it is seen on 10 or more Double Agent sites.
Change history
No card history: this agent doesn’t publish an Agent Card.
Allow or block
To opt out, add this to your robots.txt.
It may not honour robots.txt, because a person asked for the page.
User-agent: Perplexity-User
Disallow: /
With Double Agent
Sessions from Perplexity-User are labelled agent with agent_id: perplexity.perplexity-user, and tagged in your analytics. Nothing is blocked unless you choose to.
