THE FOMITE

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GPTBot

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

31Requests
2Distinct IPs
7Well-known probes
2026-08-19First seen
2026-08-19Last seen

Identity

Kindcrawler
Familyopenai
Stated purposetraining
UA matchgptbot
Verifiedno
robots.txtnever-read
Operator docshttps://platform.openai.com/docs/gptbot

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
/.well-known/fomite.json22026-08-192026-08-19
/ai.txt12026-08-192026-08-19
/openapi.json12026-08-192026-08-19
/.well-known/security.txt12026-08-192026-08-19
/llms.txt12026-08-192026-08-19
/sitemap.xml12026-08-192026-08-19

Protocol fingerprint

HTTPTLSCipherALPNRequests
HTTP/2.0TLS1.3TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256h228
HTTP/1.1TLS1.3TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256http/1.13

Requests per day (60 days)

DayRequests 
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