Our audit crawler

This page describes the crawler the AI Trust Audit uses to analyse websites — for site owners, hosting providers and security services.

Purpose

The bot performs a one-off check of how well a website can be found and understood by AI systems such as ChatGPT, Google AI Mode, Gemini and Claude. Every check is triggered by a person entering the address in our form. The AI Trust Audit is a free service by Trusted Shops SE.

How to identify the bot

Bot name: TrustedShops AI Trust Audit Bot
User agent: TrustedShops-AuditBot/1.0
Signature agent: https://ai-trust-audit.trustedshops.com
Key directory: https://ai-trust-audit.trustedshops.com/.well-known/http-message-signatures-directory
Key ID (kid): ykDmuQDFLdG5dfYMI0HAiIWfDzzhcs_MpE8sC-gJM8A

Behaviour

On-demand single checks instead of broad crawling.
Few pages per check: the home page and up to three subpages.
No repeat runs without a new request.
robots.txt is respected; login areas and forms are never accessed.
Every request is signed with Web Bot Auth (RFC 9421, Ed25519) and can be verified.

Allow or block

If your security service blocks unknown bots, allow ours via the signed identity or via robots.txt:

User-agent: TrustedShops-AuditBot
Allow: /

You would rather not have your website checked? Block the bot like this:

User-agent: TrustedShops-AuditBot
Disallow: /

Contact

Please send questions or complaints about our crawler to trust-audit@trustedshops.com

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