Bot intelligence record

Claude-Code

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Claimed Claude Code user-agent identifier associated with Anthropic developer-agent workflows.

Ai Developer Agent Fetch Observed Confidence: Low Verified: No robots.txt: Unknown
Operator
Anthropic
Family
Claude
Type
Ai
Source type
Observed
Last checked
2026-06-02

User-Agent Pattern

Anthropic
Claude-Code
Verification note

User-agent strings are identification signals, not proof of identity. Confirm important allow, block, or rate-limit decisions with logs, DNS or IP evidence, request behavior, or operator documentation when available.

Robots.txt Snippet

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User-agent: Claude-Code Disallow: /

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Handling Guidance

Depends

Use this record as bot intelligence, then verify the request source and behavior before allowing, blocking, or rate limiting.

Claimed user-agent for Claude Code or Anthropic developer-agent web access workflows.

Record Details

Structured data
Operator
Anthropic
Family
Claude
Type
Ai
Purpose
Developer Agent Fetch
Identity type
Observed
Confidence
Low
Last verified
2026-06-02
Last checked
2026-06-02
Source type
Observed
Verification
Low-confidence record. Anthropic officially documents ClaudeBot, Claude-User, and Claude-SearchBot, so treat Claude-Code as observed unless Anthropic publishes it as a web robot.
Spoofing risk
User-agent strings can be spoofed. Pair the claimed identifier with operator documentation, IP verification, reverse DNS, signatures, or other available trust signals before creating low-friction allow rules.

Notes

Claude-Code is listed in the Botcrawl directory as a ai bot from Claude. The primary identifier for log review is Claude-Code.

Identification

  • User-agent pattern: Claude-Code
  • Family: Claude
  • Type: Ai
  • Kind: Agent

Common use

Claimed user-agent for Claude Code or Anthropic developer-agent web access workflows.

Verification and handling

Confirm the user-agent against server logs and use published operator documentation, IP ranges, reverse DNS, signatures, or other trust signals when available.

Directory guidance marks the risk level as Neutral and the blocking decision as Depends. Do not rely on the user-agent string alone because user-agent strings can be copied or spoofed.

Robots.txt handling: Unknown.

Evidence and Source

  • Low-confidence record. Anthropic officially documents ClaudeBot, Claude-User, and Claude-SearchBot, so treat Claude-Code as observed unless Anthropic publishes it as a web robot.
  • Match `Claude-Code` as a case-insensitive substring in HTTP user-agent logs. Do not treat a user-agent match alone as proof of identity for allow-listing.
  • Claimed user-agent for Claude Code or Anthropic developer-agent web access workflows.
  • User-agent strings can be spoofed. Pair the claimed identifier with operator documentation, IP verification, reverse DNS, signatures, or other available trust signals before creating low-friction allow rules.

https://crawlercheck.com/directory/ai-bots/claude-code

Same operator: Anthropic

Claude-User Neutral

Claude-User

Claude-User represents user-initiated Claude retrieval activity rather than broad background crawling.

Operator and family: Anthropic Type: Ai Purpose: Ai Assistant
Verified robots.txt: Unknown Block: Depends Official Documented
ClaudeBot Neutral

ClaudeBot

ClaudeBot is Anthropic’s crawler used to discover and retrieve public web content for Claude-related systems.

Operator and family: Anthropic Type: Ai Purpose: Ai Crawl
Verified robots.txt: Yes Block: Depends Official Documented
Claude-SearchBot Safe

Claude-SearchBot

Claude-SearchBot is Anthropic’s search-focused crawler for retrieving web content.

Operator and family: Anthropic Type: Ai Purpose: Ai Search
Verified robots.txt: Yes Block: Depends Official Documented

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