---
schema_version: "newruntime-reader-dossiers-v1"
type: "reader_dossier"
slug: "agentindexbot"
kind: "agentic_registry"
operator: "unknown"
researched_at: "2026-10-23"
confidence: "low"
json_url: "https://newruntime.com/readers/agentindexbot.json"
canonical_url: "https://newruntime.com/readers/agentindexbot/"
---

# AgentIndexBot

> Self-described in its user-agent as "AgentIndexBot/0.1", a 'polite ARD crawler' (Agentic Resource Discovery catalogs). No operator page or public documentation could be found as of 2026-10-23.

## Dossier

- Kind: Agentic web & MCP registries
- Operator: unknown
- Documentation: none found
- robots.txt tokens: none documented
- Feeds: registry / directory
- Respects robots.txt: Not documented. Not matched to agentindex.ai (a skills/MCP finder that does not mention ARD) or agentindex.dev (parked).
- Verification: Unknown
- Labels matched in our logs: agentindexbot

## Why it matters to New Runtime (our interpretation)

Harvests ARD catalogs/.well-known manifests for an agent index; unattributed.

## Observed behaviour

- Baseline 2026-10-23 (93-day window): 4 requests on 3 days; first seen 2026-10-21, last seen 2026-10-23; New this week.
- Live numbers: https://newruntime.com/bot-traffic-history.json and https://newruntime.com/crawler-journeys.json

## Sources

- No public source found; the dossier describes only what the client declares and did.

Identity: A family name is what a client claims in its user agent. It is verified only when its request came from the operator's published IP ranges or passed forward-confirmed reverse DNS, as reported per family in /crawler-journeys.json. Anyone can claim any name.

All dossiers: https://newruntime.com/readers.md