Rattlesnakes By Mail

Claim 52

Anthropic separates training and search controls into two robots.txt tokens: ClaudeBot for training and Claude-SearchBot for search.

entity
ClaudeBot
field
separate_search_and_training_tokens
value
yes
statement
Anthropic separates training and search controls into two robots.txt tokens: ClaudeBot for training and Claude-SearchBot for search.
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
"ClaudeBot ... When a site restricts ClaudeBot access, it signals that the site's future materials should be excluded from our AI model training datasets." next to "Claude-SearchBot navigates the web to improve search result quality for users." source dated 2026-04-07
method
vendor_doc
verified_at
2026-09-13
confidence
high
status
current
supersedes
none

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