# 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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