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Meta-ExternalAgent

Honors robots.txt

Meta-ExternalAgent crawls web content to train Meta's AI models, including the Llama family, and to support Meta's AI-powered search and assistant features across its app portfolio.

User-agent
Meta-ExternalAgent
Operator
Meta

Allow in robots.txt

User-agent: Meta-ExternalAgent
Allow: /

Block in robots.txt

User-agent: Meta-ExternalAgent
Disallow: /

Relevant if you want visibility inside Meta AI (across Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp) in addition to the standalone chat assistants most GEO programmes focus on first.

Frequently asked questions

It's the crawler feeding Meta's AI training and features broadly, which includes the Meta AI assistant surfaced across its apps.

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