cohere-ai

What is cohere-ai?

About

cohere-ai is an unconfirmed agent possibly dispatched by Cohere's AI chat products in response to user prompts when it needs to retrieve content on the internet. You can see how often cohere-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 Cohere
Last Updated 11 hours ago

Insights

Top Website Robots.txts

12%
12% of top websites are blocking cohere-ai
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Country of Origin

United States
cohere-ai normally visits from the United States

Global Traffic

The percentage of all internet traffic coming from Undocumented AI Agents

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Robots.txt

Should I Block cohere-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 cohere-ai?

You can block cohere-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.
User Agent String Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; cohere-ai/1.0; +http://www.cohere.ai/bot.html)
# In your robots.txt ...

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

⚠️ Manual Robots.txt Editing Is Not Scalable

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.