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anthropic-ai

Updated 2026-05-17

anthropic-ai is the legacy user-agent name for Anthropic's web crawler. Anthropic has since standardised on ClaudeBot, but anthropic-ai directives in robots.txt are still respected for backwards compatibility. Allow or block both for the most defensible posture.

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