What is Devin?
Devin is a software engineering AI assistant that can browse websites and perform web-based tasks, functioning as a collaborative AI teammate for engineering teams. Agent Analytics can track when it visits your website.
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Expected Behavior
Devin shows up while a developer is coding against something you publish, pulling docs, API references, and examples in quick runs of several pages within a few seconds. With many developers using it at once, those runs overlap into steady traffic rather than the quiet gaps a single user would leave. Either way, requests concentrate almost entirely on technical content.
Overview
| Operated By | Devin |
| Expected To Follow Robots.txt | Yes |
| Insights Last Updated | July 7, 2026 |
Robots.txt Blocked Percentage
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Robots.txt Blocking Trend
As of July 7, 2026, 2% of top websites block Devin in their robots.txt files.
Overall AI Coding Agent Traffic
As of July 7, 2026, 0.0% of all web traffic came from AI coding agents.
This data reflects agent visits measured across thousands of websites using Agent Analytics, combined with daily scans of the world's top 1000 websites and their robots.txt files.
Devin's User Agent
| User Agent | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/137.0.0.0 Safari/537.36; Devin/1.0; +devin.ai |
Access other known user agents and IP addresses using the Enterprise API.
How To Block Devin
Add this rule to your robots.txt file to block Devin from accessing your entire website. You can customize which pages are blocked by swapping out / for a different path.
User-agent: Devin # https://knownagents.com/agents/devin
Disallow: /Frequently Asked Questions
Should I Block Devin?
Allow it if you publish documentation or technical content. Devin fetches docs and code examples at the moment a developer needs them, so blocking it makes your product harder to build with. Search rankings are unaffected either way. For comparison, 2% of the top websites we track already have robots.txt rules for Devin.
Does Devin Respect Robots.txt?
Yes. Devin is expected to honor robots.txt rules, so a disallow rule is the right first move. Automatic Robots.txt adds and maintains that rule for you, and Agent Analytics confirms Devin actually honors it.
Does Devin Access Private Content?
Not on its own. Devin reads public documentation, references, and code examples. It can only reach private resources if the developer using it supplies credentials on purpose.
Why Is Devin Visiting My Website?
A developer somewhere is building against something you document. Devin pulled your docs, API reference, or examples because they were relevant to the code being written at that moment.
How Can I Tell if Devin Is Visiting My Website?
Agent Analytics tracks Devin visits in real time alongside every other known AI agent, crawler, and scraper. You can also check your server logs for requests whose user agent string contains "Devin". Look for bursts of requests to your documentation and reference pages. Keep in mind that Devin doesn't publish a verification method, so any client can claim its user agent string and a log match is a hint rather than proof.