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ClaudeBot

Also: Anthropic ClaudeBot

ClaudeBot is Anthropic's web crawler, used to gather publicly available content for Claude. It identifies with the user agent ClaudeBot and respects robots.txt, so you allow or block it the same way you would any other crawler.

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If you want Claude to be able to reach and reference your content, allow ClaudeBot in robots.txt and make sure no WAF rule blocks it. Blocking it keeps your pages out of Anthropic's crawl.

As with other AI crawlers, the most common reason ClaudeBot cannot reach a site is an unintended bot-management rule, not a deliberate robots.txt block.