Centinel AnalyticaxAI-SearchBot
xAI-SearchBot is xAI's search crawler. It fetches web pages so Grok can retrieve and cite live sources when answering user queries, distinct from xAI's training-data collection crawlers. xAI publishes no crawler documentation, IP range file, or reverse-DNS verification method, so this agent can only be identified by its user agent.
At a glance
- Operator: xAI
- Type: AI Search
- RSL category:
ai-input
How Centinel checks it
- User agent: The request calls itself this crawler. Anyone can send the same string.
xAI-SearchBot publishes nothing Centinel can check a source against, so a match reports the name and leaves the source unconfirmed. The match tokens, verification domains, and address feeds are not published here.
Allowing or blocking it
The crawler object in the /validate response sets access_allowed to true only for a verified source that your tenant allowlists. A policy rule can allow or block this crawler by its category, AI Search.