anthropic-ai

Operated by Anthropic. Last seen today.

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.

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

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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

User Agent Token	Description
`anthropic-ai`	Should match instances of anthropic-ai

You can block anthropic-ai or limit its access by setting user agent token rules in your website's robots.txt.

# robots.txt
# This blocks anthropic-ai

User-agent: anthropic-ai
Disallow: /

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