Claude-SearchBot
Anthropic uses Claude-SearchBot to index sites for Claude's search results.
- Operated by
- Anthropic
- robots.txt token
Claude-SearchBot- User-Agent sent
- Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; Claude-SearchBot/1.0; +https://www.anthropic.com)
- Honours robots.txt
- Yes — Anthropic documents that it honours robots.txt.
Anthropic documents the token but did not publish a full User-Agent string on the page we read. The string above is the one reported consistently elsewhere — treat the token, not the string, as the part to match on.
This one is on the answer path.
Anthropic uses it to index your site, so while it's blocked your pages can't appear in Claude's search results.
Two lines in robots.txt.
Block Claude-SearchBot
User-agent: Claude-SearchBot
Disallow: /Goes in the robots.txt at the root of your domain.
Allow Claude-SearchBot
User-agent: Claude-SearchBot
Allow: /Only needed if a broader rule already blocks it — a group of its own overrides the wildcard.
Group selection matches the token, not the full User-Agent string, and it is case-insensitive. A rule under User-agent: * applies only when the crawler has no group of its own.
Anthropic runs more than one, and they do different jobs.
Blocking one does not block the others. This is where most advice goes wrong: the rule that stops model training is not the rule that decides whether you appear in an answer.
Everything on this page was read from Anthropic’s own published source on . Read the source. Vendors change these pages without announcing it — if you find something here that no longer matches, tell us and we’ll correct it.
We run a crawler too. Here is what it does and how to block it.
Knowing what Claude-SearchBot does doesn’t tell you whether your site lets it in.
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