What is Trae?
Trae is an AI-powered coding agent developed by ByteDance that can understand codebases, fetch web content, and generate code. Agent Analytics can track when it visits your website.
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Expected Behavior
Trae shows up while a developer is coding against something you publish, pulling docs, API references, and examples in quick runs of several pages within a few seconds. With many developers using it at once, those runs overlap into steady traffic rather than the quiet gaps a single user would leave. Either way, requests concentrate almost entirely on technical content.
Overview
| Operated By | ByteDance |
| Expected To Follow Robots.txt | Yes |
| Insights Last Updated | July 6, 2026 |
Robots.txt Blocked Percentage
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Robots.txt Blocking Trend
As of July 6, 2026, 1% of top websites block Trae in their robots.txt files.
Overall AI Coding Agent Traffic
As of July 6, 2026, 0.0% of all web traffic came from AI coding agents.
This data reflects agent visits measured across thousands of websites using Agent Analytics, combined with daily scans of the world's top 1000 websites and their robots.txt files.
Trae's User Agent
| User Agent | Trae-Agent |
Access other known user agents and IP addresses using the Enterprise API.
How To Block Trae
Add this rule to your robots.txt file to block Trae from accessing your entire website. You can customize which pages are blocked by swapping out / for a different path.
User-agent: Trae # https://knownagents.com/agents/trae
Disallow: /Frequently Asked Questions
Should I Block Trae?
Allow it if you publish documentation or technical content. Trae fetches docs and code examples at the moment a developer needs them, so blocking it makes your product harder to build with. Search rankings are unaffected either way. For comparison, 1% of the top websites we track already have robots.txt rules for Trae.
Does Trae Respect Robots.txt?
Yes. Trae is expected to honor robots.txt rules, so a disallow rule is the right first move. Automatic Robots.txt adds and maintains that rule for you, and Agent Analytics confirms Trae actually honors it.
Does Trae Access Private Content?
Not on its own. Trae reads public documentation, references, and code examples. It can only reach private resources if the developer using it supplies credentials on purpose.
Why Is Trae Visiting My Website?
A developer somewhere is building against something you document. Trae pulled your docs, API reference, or examples because they were relevant to the code being written at that moment.
How Can I Tell if Trae Is Visiting My Website?
Agent Analytics tracks Trae visits in real time alongside every other known AI agent, crawler, and scraper. You can also check your server logs for requests whose user agent string contains "Trae". Look for bursts of requests to your documentation and reference pages. Keep in mind that Trae doesn't publish a verification method, so any client can claim its user agent string and a log match is a hint rather than proof.