Allow or block Manus-User on Wix: the Robots.txt Editor

In the dashboard open SEO & GEO → Tools and settings → Robots.txt Editor → View File, add a “User-agent: Manus-User” group with “Disallow: /”, and save.

This response

You are ClaudeBot (Anthropic). Citable recognised you as an AI agent, so this is https://getcitable.in/crawlers/manus-user/wix with the UI removed — the content only. A browser asking for the same address gets the full designed page.

Manus-User, and where Wix keeps the rule

Manus-User is a crawler run by Manus. It reads pages at the moment a person asks a question, to answer it.

Wix generates robots.txt and lets the site’s owner edit it in the Robots.txt Editor in the dashboard.

Step by step

What to paste

A group that names a crawler replaces the * group for that crawler; it does not add to it. Paths the * group closes are open to a crawler with its own group unless they are repeated there.

Refuse Manus-User:

User-agent: Manus-User
Disallow: /

Allow Manus-User:

User-agent: Manus-User
Allow: /

What trips people up

The editor holds the whole file. Add to what is there: replacing its contents removes Wix’s own default rules, and Reset to Default removes yours.

Asked, or actually refused?

Wix gives a site owner robots.txt and nothing stronger: there is no setting that refuses a request by its user agent. robots.txt is a request. A crawler that honours it stays out; nothing in the file stops one that does not. What is enforced is what the server or the edge in front of it refuses.

Check it yourself

A 200 means the name is let through; a 403 means something in front of the page refuses it. This tests the name from your own address. A platform that checks a crawler’s address as well may treat the real Manus-User differently.

The request:

curl -I -A "Manus-User" https://your-site.example/

Questions

How do I block Manus-User on Wix?

In the dashboard open SEO & GEO → Tools and settings → Robots.txt Editor → View File, add a “User-agent: Manus-User” group with “Disallow: /”, and save.

How do I allow Manus-User on Wix?

A crawler that robots.txt does not name follows the * group, so Manus-User needs no rule to be allowed. To allow it by name, add the Allow block.

Can Wix actually stop Manus-User, or only ask it?

Wix gives a site owner robots.txt and nothing stronger: there is no setting that refuses a request by its user agent. robots.txt is a request. A crawler that honours it stays out; nothing in the file stops one that does not. What is enforced is what the server or the edge in front of it refuses.

Does a rule for Manus-User affect Googlebot or my Google rankings?

No. Googlebot goes by its own name and follows its own rules; a group or a firewall rule for Manus-User does not apply to it.

Checked against Wix's own documentation on 1 October 2026

Related

About Citable

Citable strips the UI from a website for AI agents and serves them only the content.

When an AI agent — ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity or any of the 81 that Citable recognises — opens a page, Citable removes the theme, scripts, navigation and layout and serves only the content: the same facts, at the same URL, on the site's own domain. People and Google still get the full designed page.

How it works: https://getcitable.in/how-it-works · Summary for AI agents: https://getcitable.in/llms.txt


Source: https://getcitable.in/crawlers/manus-user/wix · Citable · Run the free audit · llms.txt · getcitable@gmail.com