---
schema_version: "newruntime-reader-dossiers-v1"
type: "reader_dossier"
slug: "xai-grok"
kind: "ai_answer"
operator: "xAI (unconfirmed; UA claims x.ai)"
researched_at: "2026-10-23"
confidence: "low"
json_url: "https://newruntime.com/readers/xai-grok.json"
canonical_url: "https://newruntime.com/readers/xai-grok/"
---

# GrokBot / xAI-SearchBot

> User agents that claim to be xAI (GrokBot/1.0, xAI-SearchBot/1.0 with +https://x.ai). Third-party directories describe xAI-SearchBot as fetching/indexing pages for Grok search and answers; GrokBot's purpose is undisclosed. xAI publishes no crawler documentation.

## Dossier

- Kind: AI search & answer engines
- Operator: xAI (unconfirmed; UA claims x.ai) (https://x.ai/)
- Documentation: none found
- robots.txt tokens: none documented
- Feeds: unknown
- Respects robots.txt: Not documented. No xAI documentation; tokens GrokBot/xAI-SearchBot are observed, not documented.
- Verification: No published method
- Labels matched in our logs: grokbot, xai-searchbot

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

If genuine, xAI-SearchBot hits indicate Grok answers citing us; unverified UAs make spoofing likely.

## Observed behaviour

- Baseline 2026-10-24 (94-day window): 19 requests on 5 days; first seen 2026-09-25, last seen 2026-10-21; Returning.
- Live numbers: https://newruntime.com/bot-traffic-history.json and https://newruntime.com/crawler-journeys.json

## Sources

- https://knownagents.com/agents/xai-searchbot
- https://knownagents.com/agents/grokbot

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