Is the OpenForBots scanner live?
Not yet. The current audit flow previews the inputs, policy choices, evidence model, and planned report format without contacting the submitted website. The secure Release 1 scanner is being developed separately.
Does blocking GPTBot block ChatGPT Search?
Not by itself. OpenAI documents GPTBot and OAI-SearchBot as separate controls with different purposes. OpenForBots evaluates recognised crawler tokens individually instead of treating every OpenAI-related rule as the same decision.
Is llms.txt required for AI search visibility?
No universal requirement has been established. OpenForBots may inspect the file when it exists, but its absence is not treated as a critical failure or a guaranteed visibility problem.
Can OpenForBots guarantee AI citations or rankings?
No. OpenForBots can evaluate observable readiness conditions such as crawler policy, public retrieval, initial HTML, business clarity, and evidence signals. It cannot see a provider’s complete private index, ranking logic, retrieval process, or recommendation system.
Does the Release 1 audit execute JavaScript?
The planned Release 1 deterministic scan focuses on initial public responses and does not run an unrestricted headless browser. A heavy client-rendering dependency may be reported as a heuristic, not as proof that a particular provider cannot render the page.
What does business clarity mean?
It means checking whether the public page clearly exposes signals such as the organisation, product category, intended audience, primary offer, title, heading, opening explanation, and supporting evidence. It does not claim to observe what a private model internally understands.