Google-CloudVertexBot
Crawls requested by site owners for Vertex AI Agents.
- Class
- Search index
- robots.txt
- Says it honours robots.txt
Proving it is real
- Check the IP against Google's Common crawlers file.
Blocking it
User-agent: Google-CloudVertexBot
Disallow: /(http.user_agent contains "Google-CloudVertexBot")if ($http_user_agent ~* "Google-CloudVertexBot") {
return 403;
}Matching a name only blocks bots that tell the truth about it. Before you do this, read what each decision costs.
Last reviewed Nov 2, 2026