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title: "What is Copilot? Microsoft's Bot Explained | Kitbase"
description: "User-triggered Microsoft Copilot fetches for AI answers. How to identify and verify it, and what its traffic means for your site."
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# Copilot

by Microsoft

AI answers AI UA only (unverifiable)

Fetches a page when a user asks an assistant to answer with fresh web context.

User-triggered Microsoft Copilot fetches for AI answers.

## What it usually means

A person asked an AI assistant a question, and the assistant fetched this URL to answer with fresh context or citations.

## How to identify it

User-Agent tokens

`copilot`

robots.txt stanza

`User-agent: Copilot`

Free tools

[Verify a Copilot request](/tools/bot-verifier?ua=copilot) [Check if your site allows Copilot](/tools/ai-crawler-access-checker)

[Microsoft's page for Copilot](https://www.bing.com/webmasters/help/how-to-verify-bingbot-3905dc26)

## Sources

-   [Microsoft crawler docs](https://www.bing.com/webmasters/help/how-to-verify-bingbot-3905dc26)

## More from Microsoft

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Bingbot

Microsoft crawler for Bing Search indexing.

](/bot-directory/bingbot)[

msnbot

Legacy Microsoft crawler used for search indexing, now largely superseded by Bingbot.

](/bot-directory/msnbot)

## Similar bots

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Amzn-User

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User-triggered Amazon fetches for fresh answers in products such as Alexa.

](/bot-directory/amzn-user)[

ChatGPT-User

OpenAI

User-triggered fetches when ChatGPT opens a page to answer a person.

](/bot-directory/chatgpt-user)[

Claude-User

Anthropic

User-triggered fetches when Claude opens a page to answer a person.

](/bot-directory/claude-user)[

DuckAssistBot

DuckDuckGo

DuckDuckGo real-time crawler for AI-assisted answers with citations.

](/bot-directory/duckassistbot)

## See if Copilot has visited your site

Kitbase verifies and tracks bot and AI crawler traffic separately from human visitors, so you know exactly who's hitting your site.

[Start Free Trial](https://app.kitbase.dev/signup)