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      "field": "honours_crawl_delay",
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      "claim_id_b": null,
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    },
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      "field": "publishes_ip_list",
      "value_a": "yes",
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      "same": true
    },
    {
      "field": "purpose_documented",
      "value_a": "mixed",
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      "field": "reads_llms_txt",
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      "field": "respects_robots_txt",
      "value_a": "yes",
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      "same": true
    },
    {
      "field": "separate_search_and_training_tokens",
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      "same": false
    },
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      "field": "user_agent_string_full",
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      "field": "user_fetch_exception_documented",
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    },
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      "field": "verifiable_by_rdns",
      "value_a": "yes",
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      "field": "cites_sources",
      "statement_a": "Apple includes links to source websites in Siri and Search answers to broad world knowledge questions.",
      "statement_b": "Anthropic does not publish whether Claude responses cite pages fetched by Claude-User.",
      "claim_id_a": 15,
      "claim_id_b": 44
    },
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      "field": "fallback_to_googlebot_rules",
      "statement_a": "Applebot follows Googlebot robots.txt instructions when a robots.txt file mentions Googlebot but not Applebot.",
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      "claim_id_b": null
    },
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      "field": "honours_crawl_delay",
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      "claim_id_a": 10,
      "claim_id_b": 39
    },
    {
      "field": "observed_paths_fetched",
      "statement_a": "Applebot made 6 requests to Rattlesnakes By Mail between 2026-09-13T20:00Z and 2026-09-15T09:00Z, to 2 distinct paths, /robots.txt and the home page. Applebot's 6 requests to Rattlesnakes By Mail run from 2026-09-14T12:22:23Z to 2026-09-14T12:59:26Z and alternate the two paths three times.",
      "statement_b": null,
      "claim_id_a": 150,
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      "field": "purpose_documented",
      "statement_a": "Applebot crawls content for Apple search results and for training Apple foundation models.",
      "statement_b": "Claude-User accesses websites in response to questions that individual users ask Claude.",
      "claim_id_a": 13,
      "claim_id_b": 42
    },
    {
      "field": "separate_search_and_training_tokens",
      "statement_a": "Apple uses one crawler token, Applebot, for search crawling and for training crawling, and a second robots.txt token, Applebot-Extended, that opts content out of training use.",
      "statement_b": "Anthropic does not document Claude-User as a search or training opt-out token.",
      "claim_id_a": 14,
      "claim_id_b": 43
    },
    {
      "field": "user_agent_string_full",
      "statement_a": "Applebot sends the desktop user agent string Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/17.4 Safari/605.1.15 (Applebot/0.1; +http://www.apple.com/go/applebot).",
      "statement_b": "Anthropic does not publish a full user agent string for Claude-User.",
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      "claim_id_b": 46
    },
    {
      "field": "user_fetch_exception_documented",
      "statement_a": null,
      "statement_b": "Anthropic applies the same robots.txt statement to Claude-User as to ClaudeBot and Claude-SearchBot and documents no exception for user-initiated fetches.",
      "claim_id_a": null,
      "claim_id_b": 38
    },
    {
      "field": "verifiable_by_rdns",
      "statement_a": "Applebot traffic is verifiable by reverse DNS lookup in the applebot.apple.com domain.",
      "statement_b": "Anthropic does not publish a reverse-DNS verification method for Claude-User.",
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      "claim_id_b": 41
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  "sources": [
    "https://claude.com/crawling/bots.json",
    "https://rattlesnakesbymail.com/observed/applebot",
    "https://search.developer.apple.com/applebot.json",
    "https://support.apple.com/en-us/119829",
    "https://support.claude.com/en/articles/8896518-does-anthropic-crawl-content-from-the-web-and-how-can-site-owners-block-the-crawler"
  ]
}