anthropic-ai

Last updated 17 hours ago.

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 set up agent analytics to see when anthropic-ai visits your website.

Detail

Operator Anthropic

Type

Undocumented AI Agent
AI-related but without a disclosed purpose

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.

Insights

anthropic-ai Visiting Your Website

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Other Websites

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Access Control

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.

Using Robots.txt

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

User Agent Token Description
anthropic-ai Should match instances of anthropic-ai 
# robots.txt
# This should block anthropic-ai

User-agent: anthropic-ai
Disallow: /

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