# This week in agent traffic, 2026-W41: 43,984 requests, 74 registered agents, 35 new

> 2026-10-05 to 2026-10-11, published 2026-10-12. Every request to overwing.ai, classified against the Atlas registry of 312 agents. An agent counts as new the first week it appears under a name the registry holds, so agents added to the registry mid-stream show as new that week. A new note each Monday: https://overwing.ai/atlas/weekly, RSS https://overwing.ai/atlas/weekly/feed.xml.

1. 43,984 requests in the week of 2026-10-05, up 71.4% on the week before. Generic libraries sent the most, 55.7% of it.
2. 74 registered agents visited (45 the week before), 35 for the first time: 7Maps-bot, AIVE-MCP-Discover, AIVE-MCP-EndpointProbe, AIVE-MCP-Prompts, AIVE-MCP-Resources and 30 more. The busiest was Agent402 (Agent402 (https://agent402.tools)) with 1,981 requests, 43.1% of what registered agents sent.
3. Of 4,567 requests whose claimed identity could be checked against the operator's published evidence, 366 (8%) were confirmed and 1 contradicted the claim. The rest could not be checked either way.
4. 476 distinct User-Agent strings arrived, 215 (45.2%) never seen before this week. Automated clients asked for the MCP endpoint 12,888 times and x402 payment terms 11,566 times, against 428 for llms.txt and 600 for robots.txt.
5. 4 x402 payments settled in the week.

## Who sent the requests

| Kind of client | Requests | Share | Distinct User-Agents |
|---|---|---|---|
| generic libraries | 24,495 | 55.7% | 374 |
| self-named software | 11,422 | 26% | 41 |
| registered agents | 4,596 | 10.4% | 89 |
| browsers | 2,352 | 5.3% | 1 |
| no User-Agent at all | 1,044 | 2.4% | 1 |
| SDKs and clients | 75 | 0.2% | 2 |

## The busiest registered agents

| Agent | Operator | Days | Requests | Identity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Agent402 | Agent402 (https://agent402.tools) | 7 | 1,981 | 0/1981 confirmed |
| BrickBlueBot | brick.blue (https://brick.blue) | 7 | 569 | 0/569 confirmed |
| ClaudeBot | Anthropic (https://www.anthropic.com) | 7 | 195 | 0/195 confirmed |
| AgenstryBot | Agenstry (https://agenstry.com) | 7 | 193 | 0/193 confirmed |
| Meta-ExternalAgent | Meta | 5 | 170 | 0/170 confirmed |
| GoogleOther | Google | 4 | 165 | 165/165 confirmed |
| x402watch | x402watch (x402watch.vercel.app) | 7 | 116 | 0/116 confirmed |
| GolemreachTrustBot | Golemreach (https://golemreach.com) | 7 | 112 | 0/112 confirmed |

## What automated clients asked for

MCP endpoint 12,888 · x402 payment terms 11,566 · OpenAPI 2,275 · llms.txt 428 · robots.txt 600 · A2A 902 · markdown pages 48

Other weeks: [2026-W41](https://overwing.ai/atlas/weekly/2026-W41.md) · [2026-W40](https://overwing.ai/atlas/weekly/2026-W40.md)

Cite as: Overwing Atlas, This week in agent traffic, 2026-W41, https://overwing.ai/atlas/weekly/2026-W41. JSON: https://overwing.ai/api/v1/atlas/weekly?week=2026-W41. Daily rows: https://overwing.ai/api/v1/atlas/sightings. Method: https://overwing.ai/atlas/traffic.md.