# AI Crawler Access Check

> AI Crawler Access Check is a paid API for AI agents from api.aiskills402.com, paid per call via x402, $0.05/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-18).

Returns a SKILL.md file describing how to interpret AI-crawler probe results — classifying which bot categories are blocked, allowed, or mixed on a given website.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://api.aiskills402.com/v1/skills/crawler-access-probe/file?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.05/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-18
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/ai-crawler-access-check-ddc326b2
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_uCg6Fg_Cj8LtP9mnO0vCW

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability ai-crawler-access-check-ddc326b2
```

Example prompt: I want to understand which categories of AI crawlers — training bots, search bots, and user-triggered agents — are actually allowed or blocked on a site; can you get me the skill guide that explains how to read those probe results and what the status codes really mean?

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when an agent needs authoritative, interpretive guidance on AI-crawler HTTP probe results — specifically to classify bot category access (training, search, user-triggered) and understand the semantics behind 403 responses and robots.txt authenticity. Prefer this over raw HTTP probing tools when you need curated, expert-authored interpretation logic packaged as a reusable skill file rather than raw status codes.

## Known failure modes

- Payment not settled — 402 response if USDC payment on Base is not confirmed
- Invalid method — only GET or HEAD accepted; other methods return error
- File unavailable — if SKILL.md cannot be retrieved, ok field will be false
- Network timeout — slow response if upstream settlement is delayed
- Invalid input schema — missing required 'type' or 'method' fields returns validation error

## How this service works

AI Crawler Access Check: Who Gets a 403 — Reads the results of probing a website with AI-crawler user agents (status codes per bot, a control request, sometimes robots.txt or the site's settings) and says what they really show as JSON - whether training bots, search bots and user-triggered agents are open, blocked, mixed or unknown, what is behind a refusal, and whether the robots.txt that answered is the site's own file. Knows the traps - a bare bot name proves nothing and lies differently for…

## Output

Returns a SKILL.md markdown file (with UTF-8 encoding and SHA256 hash) that explains how to interpret AI-crawler probe results — classifying bot categories as open, blocked, mixed, or unknown, explaining what drives refusals, and flagging whether the responding robots.txt is authentic. Also includes a purchase receipt with a blockchain settlement transaction and a redownload URL with token.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
 "required": [
  "input"
 ],
 "properties": {
  "input": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type",
    "method"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string",
     "const": "http"
    },
    "method": {
     "enum": [
      "GET",
      "HEAD"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    },
    "headers": {
     "type": "object",
     "additionalProperties": {
      "type": "string"
     }
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  },
  "output": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string"
    },
    "example": {
     "type": "object"
    }
   }
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json",
 "example": {
  "ok": true,
  "file": {
   "name": "SKILL.md",
   "content": "<the SKILL.md file>",
   "encoding": "utf-8"
  },
  "name": "AI Crawler Access Check: Who Gets a 403",
  "skill": "crawler-access-probe",
  "sha256": "<sha256 of SKILL.md>",
  "receipt": {
   "tx": "0x<settlement transaction>",
   "settled": true
  },
  "version": "1.0.0",
  "redownload": {
   "url": "<api>/v1/purchases/<token>",
   "token": "<64 hex chars>"
  }
 }
}
```

## More

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