Browsing agent from Block
Goose (open-source agent)
In short
Goose (open-source agent) is Block's browsing agent. Goose has no robots.txt token, so robots.txt cannot address it and the crawl cannot measure a block rate. Cloudflare lists it as a signed agent. Goose has no operator bot documentation, checked 2026-11-04. A browsing agent that clicks, fills forms and finishes a job for a person. In Cloudflare's first signed-agents cohort (2025-08-28).
- Operator
- Block
- Purpose
- Task agent All task agent rows. A browsing agent that clicks, fills forms and finishes a job for a person.
- User-agent string
- No exact string is published. What the operator or a third party says: Signs with Web Bot Auth under Cloudflare's signed agents program
- robots.txt token
- None. No robots.txt line can address this agent.
- Respects robots.txt
No documentation
operator publishes no bot documentation (checked 2026-11-04) on robots.txt. Source, read 2026-11-04.
- Verification
Cloudflare signed agent
Cloudflare lists the agent as a signed agent; the operator publishes no list of its own. Documentation, read 2026-11-04.
- IP ranges
- Not published.
- Rate behaviour
- Runs locally by default.
- Block rate
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None: the agent has no token, so a robots.txt block rate does not exist.
- Documentation
- Operator publishes no bot documentation (checked 2026-11-04). Closest page read.
Note. In Cloudflare's first signed-agents cohort (2025-08-28).
Allow and refuse lines
This agent has no robots.txt token, so there are no lines to copy. Use the verification method above to decide at the WAF.
Refusing or allowing in robots.txt states a preference. For this row the operator or its documentation says robots.txt may not govern the fetch, so enforcement belongs in your WAF.
Block in the Verification Ledger
Open-source agent. All operators.
- IP lists
- publishes nothing
- Reverse DNS
- publishes nothing
- Key directory
- signs under Cloudflare's signed agents program
- Cloudflare
- Cloudflare signed agent (cohort of 2025-08-28)
- Visa TAP registry
- no public operator-level registration found (checked 2026-11-04)
- Mastercard Agent Pay
- no public operator-level registration found (checked 2026-11-04)
Sources
Last reviewed 2026-11-04