Anthropic
Claude-User
Fetches that a person triggers from Claude, as distinct from the ClaudeBot crawl.
- Who runs it
- Anthropic
- robots.txt token
- Claude-User
- User-agent
- See the operator's documentation for the current full string.
Anthropic documents the token Claude-User for user-triggered fetches. The full user-agent string changes with their article. Copy it from there if a firewall must match the whole string. IndexDoctor's free check does not live-probe Claude-User.
Claude-User is not ClaudeBot. Anthropic lists it for requests a person initiates, such as asking Claude to read a page.
If you want a robots.txt rule, the token to name is Claude-User. Read Anthropic's article for how that fetch treats robots.txt before you rely on the file alone.
The free check live-fetches Googlebot, GPTBot, and ClaudeBot. It does not send a Claude-User request. Read your robots.txt yourself for a Claude-User group.
Example robots.txt rules
Examples for your file, using the documented token. They are not a copy of the operator's own robots.txt.
Allow
User-agent: Claude-User Allow: /
Block
User-agent: Claude-User Disallow: /
Related guides
Other crawlers
Questions
- Why is there no full user-agent on this page?
- Anthropic's article is the source of the string. Quoting a stale string would make a firewall rule miss.