Claim 38
Anthropic applies the same robots.txt statement to Claude-User as to ClaudeBot and Claude-SearchBot and documents no exception for user-initiated fetches.
- entity
- Claude-User
- field
- user_fetch_exception_documented
- value
no- statement
- Anthropic applies the same robots.txt statement to Claude-User as to ClaudeBot and Claude-SearchBot and documents no exception for user-initiated fetches.
- evidence_url
- https://support.claude.com/en/articles/8896518-does-anthropic-crawl-content-from-the-web-and-how-can-site-owners-block-the-crawler
- evidence_quote
- "Anthropic's Bots respect "do not crawl" signals by honoring industry standard directives in robots.txt." source dated 2026-04-07
- method
- vendor_doc
- verified_at
- 2026-09-13
- confidence
- high
- status
- current
- supersedes
- none
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