anthropic-ai

What is anthropic-ai?

About

anthropic-ai is a unconfirmed agent possibly used by Anthropic to download training data for its LLMs (Large Language Models) that power AI products like Claude. You can see how often anthropic-ai visits your website by setting up Dark Visitors Agent Analytics.

Expected Behavior

Since the operator isn't currently sharing details about the agent's purpose, it's difficult to know how it's expected to behave. Theoretically, it could be used for multiple purpose with different behavioral patterns.

Type

Undocumented AI Agent

AI-related but without a disclosed purpose

Detail

Operated By	Anthropic
Last Updated	19 hours ago

Insights

Top Website Robots.txts

16%

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Country of Origin

United States

anthropic-ai normally visits from the United States

Global Traffic

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The percentage of all internet traffic coming from Undocumented AI Agents

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Robots.txt

Should I Block anthropic-ai?

It's difficult to say. The purpose or purposes of undocumented AI agents could either be good or bad for your website, depending on what they are.

How Do I Block anthropic-ai?

You can block anthropic-ai or limit its access by setting user agent token rules in your website's robots.txt. Set up Dark Visitors Agent Analytics to check whether it's actually following them.

How Do I Block All Undocumented AI Agents?

Serve a continuously updating robots.txt that blocks new undocumented AI agents automatically.

Set Up Automatic Robots.txt

User Agent String Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; anthropic-ai/1.0; +http://www.anthropic.com/bot.html)

# In your robots.txt ...

User-agent: anthropic-ai # https://darkvisitors.com/agents/anthropic-ai
Disallow: /

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New agents are created every day. We recommend setting up Dark Visitors Automatic Robots.txt if you want to block all agents of this type.