THE FOMITE

Species index / openai

ChatGPT-User

Operated by OpenAI. Identity is self-declared and unverified.

11Requests
3Distinct IPs
2Well-known probes
2026-08-20First seen
2026-08-20Last seen

Identity

Kindassistant
Familyopenai
Stated purposeretrieval
UA matchchatgpt-user
Verifiedno
robots.txtnever-read
Operator docshttps://platform.openai.com/docs/bots

What it went looking for

The order and selection of discovery paths is a design fingerprint: it reflects which conventions whoever built this client decided to support.

PathHitsFirstLast
/llms.txt12026-08-202026-08-20
/openapi.json12026-08-202026-08-20

Protocol fingerprint

HTTPTLSCipherALPNRequests
HTTP/2.0TLS1.3TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256h211

TLS client fingerprint

Captured off the wire before the proxy terminates TLS. JA4 is stable across IP changes and much harder to spoof than a User-Agent string, so it is the strongest identity signal on this page.

JA4JA3TLSALPNSeen
t13d1712h2_5b57614c22b0_ef7df7f74e48f5bd742fa8833305...13h2,http/1.12
t13d1713h2_5b57614c22b0_02c8e53ee398aa2d0ad206e0981d...13h2,http/1.11

Requests per day (60 days)

DayRequests 
2026-08-2011