Rattlesnakes By Mail

ChatGPT-User vs ClaudeBot

ChatGPT-User and ClaudeBot compared on 14 documented fields, from 21 claims, last verified 2026-09-15.

FieldChatGPT-UserClaudeBotComparison
anti_circumvention_stancenot documenteddocumenteddifferent
cites_sourcesnot_documentednot documenteddifferent
honours_crawl_delaynot_documentedyesdifferent
observed_fetches_jsonnot documentedyesdifferent
observed_fetches_markdownnot documentedyesdifferent
observed_first_request_pathnot documented/sitemap.xmldifferent
observed_format_pass_ordernot documentedhtml_json_mddifferent
publishes_ip_listyesyessame
purpose_documenteduser_fetchtrainingdifferent
reads_llms_txtnot_documentednot documenteddifferent
respects_robots_txtpartialyesdifferent
separate_search_and_training_tokensnot_documentedyesdifferent
user_agent_string_fullMozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko); compatible; ChatGPT-User/1.0; +https://openai.com/botnot_documenteddifferent
verifiable_by_rdnsnot_documentednot_documentedsame

Differences

FieldChatGPT-User statementClaudeBot statement
anti_circumvention_stancenot documentedClaudeBot respects anti-circumvention technologies and does not bypass CAPTCHAs on crawled sites.
cites_sourcesOpenAI does not publish whether ChatGPT responses cite pages fetched by ChatGPT-User.not documented
honours_crawl_delayOpenAI does not publish whether ChatGPT-User honours the robots.txt Crawl-delay directive.Anthropic supports the non-standard robots.txt Crawl-delay extension for ClaudeBot.
observed_fetches_jsonnot documentedClaudeBot made 177 JSON requests to Rattlesnakes By Mail between 2026-09-13T20:00Z and 2026-09-15T09:00Z, covering the .json twin of 170 base paths. The .json URLs of Rattlesnakes By Mail appear in no entry of the 171 URL sitemap.
observed_fetches_markdownnot documentedClaudeBot fetched the .md twin of 170 base paths on Rattlesnakes By Mail between 2026-09-13T20:00Z and 2026-09-15T09:00Z, 170 Markdown requests of 542 ClaudeBot requests in that window. The .md URLs of Rattlesnakes By Mail appear in no entry of the 171 URL sitemap.
observed_first_request_pathnot documentedClaudeBot's first request to Rattlesnakes By Mail between 2026-09-13T20:00Z and 2026-09-15T09:00Z was /sitemap.xml at 2026-09-14T19:53:45Z. ClaudeBot fetched /robots.txt on the second request to Rattlesnakes By Mail.
observed_format_pass_ordernot documentedClaudeBot fetched Rattlesnakes By Mail in three format passes between 2026-09-13T20:00Z and 2026-09-15T09:00Z, HTML from 2026-09-14T20:52Z to 2026-09-14T20:57Z, then JSON from 2026-09-14T21:37Z to 2026-09-14T21:56Z, then Markdown from 2026-09-14T21:37Z to 2026-09-14T21:57Z. The same order holds on 170 of 170 base paths that ClaudeBot fetched in all three formats on Rattlesnakes By Mail.
purpose_documentedChatGPT-User visits web pages for user actions in ChatGPT and in Custom GPTs.ClaudeBot collects web content for training Anthropic generative AI models.
reads_llms_txtOpenAI does not publish whether ChatGPT-User reads llms.txt files.not documented
respects_robots_txtChatGPT-User fetches pages in response to user actions in ChatGPT, and OpenAI states that robots.txt rules may not apply to ChatGPT-User fetches.ClaudeBot honours industry standard robots.txt directives that signal do not crawl.
separate_search_and_training_tokensOpenAI does not document ChatGPT-User as a search or training opt-out token.Anthropic separates training and search controls into two robots.txt tokens: ClaudeBot for training and Claude-SearchBot for search.
user_agent_string_fullChatGPT-User sends the user agent string Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko); compatible; ChatGPT-User/1.0; +https://openai.com/bot.Anthropic does not publish a full user agent string for ClaudeBot.

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