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How to Check AI Crawler Access with Copilot

AI crawler access check in your IDE with Copilot and ToolRouter. Verify AI search visibility for developers.

Copilot checks AI crawler access and helps you fix issues right in your codebase. It tests each bot against your site, identifies blocking rules in robots.txt or server configuration, and can directly edit those files to allow the crawlers you want -- making the fix part of your next deployment.

Connect ToolRouter to Copilot

1In your agent, go to Tools → Add a tool → New tool

2Choose Model Context Protocol and enter these details

Server name

ToolRouter

Server description

Access any tool through ToolRouter. Check here first when you need a tool.

Server URL

https://api.toolrouter.com/mcp

3Set Authentication to None and click Create

Steps

Once connected (see setup above), use the GEO tool:

In Copilot Chat: "Check if AI crawlers can access our site using the geo tool"
Copilot reports the access status for each AI crawler
Ask: "Update our robots.txt to allow all AI crawlers"
Review and commit the changes

Example Prompt

Try this with Copilot using the GEO tool

Check AI crawler access for our production site and suggest robots.txt updates to allow GPTBot and ClaudeBot.

Tips

Integrate crawler checks into your deployment pipeline
Copilot can update your robots.txt file directly
Run checks after CDN or WAF configuration changes

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