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Perplexity-User

Also: Perplexity User agent

Perplexity-User is the agent Perplexity uses to fetch a specific page in real time when a user's question requires it. Because the request is user-initiated, it generally ignores robots.txt, so a robots.txt block will not stop a direct user-driven fetch.

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Perplexity-User is separate from PerplexityBot. PerplexityBot crawls to build the search index and respects robots.txt; Perplexity-User fetches on behalf of a specific user action and does not.

The practical takeaway: allow PerplexityBot so you are in the index, and do not rely on robots.txt to keep content away from a user who asks Perplexity about your page directly.