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ClaudeBot — robots.txt guide
Anthropic crawler for Claude model training and improvement.
- robots.txt User-agent
- ClaudeBot
- Company
- Anthropic
- Official documentation
- https://www.anthropic.com/claude-bot
How to allow ClaudeBot in robots.txt
Add an explicit allow rule (recommended when you use specific bot blocks elsewhere):
User-agent: ClaudeBot Allow: /
How to block ClaudeBot in robots.txt
Block this crawler from your entire site:
User-agent: ClaudeBot Disallow: /
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