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# Goose: user agent, token, block rate | Agent Ready Crawlers

> Goose from Block: no robots.txt token, task agent purpose and what a site can check; no exact user-agent string is published. Read 2026-11-04.

Source: https://agentreadycrawlers.com/crawlers/goose
Site: Agent Ready Crawlers
Last reviewed: 2026-11-04

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 Vendor profile: [Block](https://agentreadycrawlers.com/vendors/block/)

Purpose

Task agent [All task agent rows](https://agentreadycrawlers.com/crawlers/purpose/task-agent/). 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](https://blog.cloudflare.com/signed-agents/), read 2026-11-04.

Operator publishes no bot documentation (checked 2026-11-04).

Verification

Cloudflare signed agent

Cloudflare lists the agent as a signed agent; the operator publishes no list of its own. [Documentation](https://blog.cloudflare.com/signed-agents/), read 2026-11-04.

IP ranges

Not published.

Rate behaviour

Runs locally by default.

Block rate

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](https://blog.cloudflare.com/signed-agents/).

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](https://agentreadycrawlers.com/verification/).

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

-   [The age of agents: cryptographically recognizing agent traffic](https://blog.cloudflare.com/signed-agents/) read 2026-11-04

Last reviewed 2026-11-04