Your site, your rules: new AI traffic options for all customers
Summary
Cloudflare announces new AI traffic controls for all customers, introducing a pragmatic taxonomy that classifies bot activity into Search, Agent, and Training. The company unveils BotBase for enterprise visibility, introduces content-use signals in robots.txt, and adjusts the definition of Verified bots to reflect behavior-based access. Defaults will change on September 15, 2026 to block Training and Agent on ad pages while allowing Search, and multi-use crawlers will be governed by all applicable behaviors. The update aims to give site owners finer control over automated traffic and improve transparency in bot interactions.