Actuent Bot User Agent: What It Is & How to Block It

01 · Operator

Who operates Actuent

Company: localilabs
Type: AI search crawler
Official docs: docs.actuent.ai

02 · Behavior

What Actuent does

Actuent reads public pages and turns them into LAWP, a structured summary of pages and possible visitor actions. It checks robots.txt first and follows RFC 9309. Some pages are fetched through Jina Reader so JavaScript-heavy sites can be read.

03 · Impact

Why Actuent matters for your site

If you allow it

Can make your site usable by AI agents that rely on Actuent
Follows robots.txt and treats server errors on robots.txt as off-limits

If you block it

Small, new service with unclear traffic benefit
No published IP ranges for verification

04 · Allow

How to allow Actuent

robots.txt

User-agent: Actuent
Allow: /

Cloudflare

# Security › WAF › Custom rules › Create rule
Expression: (http.user_agent contains "Actuent")
Action:     Skip › All Super Bot Fight Mode rules

# Also check Security › Bots: "Block AI bots" can block it regardless of robots.txt.

WordPress

# WordPress serves a virtual robots.txt. Edit it with your SEO plugin:
# Yoast: SEO › Tools › File editor · Rank Math: General Settings › Edit robots.txt
User-agent: Actuent
Allow: /

nginx

# nginx serves every user agent by default.
# Make sure no rule like this blocks it:
# if ($http_user_agent ~* "Actuent") { return 403; }

Apache

# Apache serves every user agent by default.
# Make sure .htaccess has no rule like this:
# RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} Actuent [NC]
# RewriteRule .* - [F,L]

05 · Block

How to block Actuent

Actuent follows robots.txt, so one rule is enough. Use a server or CDN rule only to stop spoofed copies.

robots.txt

User-agent: Actuent
Disallow: /

Cloudflare

# Security › WAF › Custom rules › Create rule
Expression: (http.user_agent contains "Actuent")
Action:     Block

WordPress

# WordPress serves a virtual robots.txt. Edit it with your SEO plugin:
# Yoast: SEO › Tools › File editor · Rank Math: General Settings › Edit robots.txt
User-agent: Actuent
Disallow: /

nginx

# In your server { } block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "Actuent") {
    return 403;
}

Apache

# .htaccess
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} Actuent [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
</IfModule>

06 · User agents

User agents we see for Actuent

The user agent published by the operator:

Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Actuent/1.0; +https://docs.actuent.ai/bot)

07 · Verification

Is it really Actuent?

Actuent’s operator publishes no IP ranges or hostnames, so requests cannot be verified. Treat the user agent as a claim, and watch your logs for unusual request rates.

FAQ

Questions about Actuent

What is Actuent?

Actuent is a search engine for AI agents made by localilabs. Its crawler summarizes public pages and the actions visitors can take.

Does Actuent respect robots.txt?

Yes. It follows RFC 9309, uses rules for the Actuent token or the * group, and picks up changes within about an hour.

Why do I see Jina Reader requests related to Actuent?

Actuent fetches some pages through Jina Reader to read JavaScript-heavy sites. It checks robots.txt before doing so.

Actuent is localilabs’ AI search crawler