claudebot

AI Training Crawler Anthropic robots.txt behaviour unknown

Anthropic Claude web crawler bot

User-Agent

Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; ClaudeBot/1.0; +https://www.anthropic.com/claude-bot)

Allow claudebot in robots.txt

User-agent: claudebot
Allow: /

Block claudebot in robots.txt

User-agent: claudebot
Disallow: /

Blocking stops your content being used for model training. It does not remove you from AI search results — that's governed by separate search/assistant bots.

Official documentation: https://www.anthropic.com/

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