EdgeShaping Lite

EdgeShaping Lite is a WordPress implementation of the EdgeShaping AI bot observation framework developed by mare interno.

This plugin answers one question:

Which AI bots are reading which pages of your site, and when?

What it does

• Detects AI bot visits using a dictionary of known AI crawlers
• Records bot name, visited URL, and timestamp
• Dashboard with bot visit frequency ranking and most AI-visited pages
• Full access log with date filter and CSV export
• AHQG Matrix — visualizes AI bot visits vs. human search clicks (requires Google Search Console integration)

What it does NOT do

• It does not block AI bots
• It does not modify your content
• It does not send data externally — all data stays in your WordPress database

Note on CDN environments

This plugin observes AI bot traffic at the PHP layer. In environments with a CDN (e.g. Cloudflare, CloudFront), cached requests may not reach PHP and will not be recorded. For full CDN-layer observation, see edgeshap.ing.

EdgeShaping Framework

EdgeShaping is a framework for observing AI bot behavior to understand how AI systems read and interpret your content. For more information, visit mare-interno.com.

External Services

This plugin connects to the following external services:

Google Search Console API

This plugin optionally connects to the Google Search Console API to retrieve human search click data for use in the AHQG Matrix feature.

• What it is used for: Retrieving search analytics data (clicks per page) to compare with AI bot traffic.
• What data is sent: The plugin sends OAuth 2.0 authentication requests and search analytics queries to Google’s API. No personal user data from your site visitors is transmitted.
• When it is used: Only when the administrator manually connects their Google Search Console account via the plugin settings screen.
• Service provider: Google LLC
• Terms of Service: https://developers.google.com/terms
• Privacy Policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy