robots.txt AI Crawler Audit - GPTBot, ClaudeBot, Google-Extended
Verified publisherWhat a VS Code verified publisher badge means, compared with Open VSX →
Checks robots.txt line by line and says what each AI crawler token actually controls - training, AI-search citation, or user fetch - and which lines silently do nothing.
Tracked since 11 Sept 2026
Daily readings on both stores, taken by us. As of 25 Sept 2026.
Each bar is one day’s change in the store’s own counter. Open VSX counts a download on every update, so a day includes updates by people who already had it.
Where robots.txt AI Crawler Audit - GPTBot, ClaudeBot, Google-Extended ranks in search
Positions observed daily on both stores. Neither store publishes this, and the two run separate search engines over separate catalogues.
| Search | Marketplace | Open VSX |
|---|---|---|
| sass | — | #82of 92↓4 7d |
| gpt | #154of 774↑438 7d | #197of 201 |
13 more searches, day-by-day history, and the extensions ranked above it. See plans | ||
VS Code Marketplace search ranking: measuring jitter and real movement →
- Installs
- —
- Rating
- —unrated
- Rank in Linters
- >1,000of 5,519
- Latest
- v0.1.724 Sept 2026
15 releases · first published Sept 2026
Why the Open VSX download count looks inflated →
- Downloads
- 1,508+70.3% 7d
- Rating
- —from 0 reviews
- Rank in Linters
- #971of 1,781
- Latest
- v0.1.724 Sept 2026
Downloads count every update, not unique installs.
What the publisher says
robots.txt AI Crawler Audit - GPTBot, ClaudeBot, Google-Extended’s own readme, changelog and license, as published to the VS Code Marketplace.