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Honours robots.txt
Yes, documented

Allow it

User-agent: DuckAssistBot
Allow: /

Block it

User-agent: DuckAssistBot
Disallow: /

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User-Agent

Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; DuckAssistBot/1.0; +https://duckduckgo.com/duckassistbot) Crawlable/1.0; +https://crawlable.fr/probe

This is the string we send when probing. The Crawlable suffix identifies us in your logs.

Check your own site

robots.txt is only half the answer: your CDN can refuse DuckAssistBot before it ever reads the file. A scan checks both.

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