"ClaudeBot helps enhance the utility and safety of our generative AI models by collecting web content that could potentially contribute to their training. When a site restricts ClaudeBot access, it signals that the site's future materials should be excluded from our AI model training datasets."
"Claude-User supports Claude AI users. When individuals ask questions to Claude, it may access websites using a Claude-User agent. Claude-User allows site owners to control which sites can be accessed through these user-initiated requests. Disabling Claude-User on your site prevents our system from retrieving your content in response to a user query, which may reduce your site's visibility for user-directed web search."
"Claude-SearchBot navigates the web to improve search result quality for users. It analyzes online content specifically to enhance the relevance and accuracy of search responses. Disabling Claude-SearchBot on your site prevents our system from indexing your content for search optimization, which may reduce your site's visibility and accuracy in user search results."
Anthropic updated its crawler documentation on February 20th to provide detailed information about its three primary web crawlers and their purposes. ClaudeBot collects web content for AI model training and development, with blocked access signaling exclusion from training datasets. Claude-User enables Claude AI users to access websites during queries, and blocking it reduces site visibility in user-directed searches. Claude-SearchBot improves search result quality by analyzing online content for relevance and accuracy, with blocking reducing indexing and search visibility. The documentation clarifies that site owners can control crawler access through robots.txt files and Crawl-delay directives.
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