Rattlesnakes By Mail

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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