Trae
Few readable files block Trae in October 2026, at 15 sites or 0.2%. Its operator is unclear in the community reference.
Who runs Trae?
| Fact | Trae reference entry |
|---|---|
| Operator | “Unclear at this time.” |
| Purpose | “AI Coding Agents” |
| Does Trae obey robots.txt? | “Unclear at this time.” |
| Frequency | “Unclear at this time.” |
| Cloudflare managed list for Trae | No |
These facts quote the stored community ai.robots.txt reference.
“Trae is an AI-powered coding agent developed by ByteDance that can understand codebases, fetch web content, and generate code.”
The listed coding role concerns tools that help with software work. An owner may allow a search crawler to list a page or an assistant to retrieve it for someone, yet decline to supply the text for training.
How many sites block it?
The name occurs in 16 out of 6,171 readable files, a 0.3% share. Across the full sample, the whole-site Disallow: / block count is 15, or 0.2%. Files without that ban number 6,156.
Breaking out the leading 1,000 sites gives 552 readable files, with 2 naming the crawler, or 0.4%. Whole-site blocking appears in 2 of them. Blocking is more common among the leading sites, at 0.4%. Beyond those ranks, 5,619 files have a blocking total of 13, 0.2% of that sample.
| Readable files | Named by | Named share | Blocked by | Blocked share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Trae, all ranks | 16 | 0.3% | 15 | 0.2% |
| Trae, top 1,000 | 2 | 0.4% | 2 | 0.4% |
| Trae, remaining ranks | 14 | 0.2% | 13 | 0.2% |
Only whole-site blocks recorded against this crawler’s name count here. Rules addressed to every crawler are outside this count. The overlap between naming and blocking is 15 files. Naming without a whole-site ban accounts for 1, and 6,155 files never name it. We ignore capitalization and repeated names.
How to block or allow it
Place the group in your root robots.txt file. Per the robots.txt standard, a named group for Trae overrides User-agent: *.
Block the whole site
User-agent: Trae
Disallow: /Allow access
User-agent: Trae
Allow: /It's the 165th most-named crawler of the 171 we counted in the crawler index.
How we counted
For Trae, we surveyed Tranco’s top 10,000 sites on 19 October 2026. A request timed out after 8 seconds, with files capped at 262,144 bytes. Only available files we could read enter the percentages. Collection and repeat readings used scripts/robots_2026_08_06.py (robots.py at app commit 07104ff). See the full survey method.
Common questions
Does a User-agent line mean it is blocked?
We found 1 file without a whole-site ban among 16 that name it.
What do the top-ranked sites show?
Its name appears in 0.4% of readable leading files and 0.3% overall. Blocking affects 0.4% in the leading group and 0.2% in all ranks.
Which nearby entry can I compare?
DoubaoBot is named by 15 files and blocked by 28, or 0.5%. For this crawler, 16 files name it and 15 block it, a 0.2% share.