About this bot
Claude-User is a user triggered fetcher associated with Anthropic and used for ai assistant user fetch.
It can be identified in HTTP traffic by the Claude-User identity family.
Directory status: Active. Identity classification: Verified with High confidence. Identity type: official-documented.
It is recorded as honoring robots.txt under Claude-User.
Match the documented Claude-User identity and keep it distinct from automated ClaudeBot and Claude-SearchBot crawling.
How to identify this bot
- User-agent and crawler identifiers
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Claude-User - Also known as
- Anthropic user fetcher
Details
- Kind
- User-triggered fetcher
- Family
- Anthropic
- Purpose
- AI assistant user fetch
- Common Use
- Retrieving web content in response to Claude user requests, including supported user-triggered web fetch workflows.
- Respects robots.txt
- Yes
Verification
- Identity Type
- Officially documented
- Evidence Method
- Match the documented Claude-User identity and keep it distinct from automated ClaudeBot and Claude-SearchBot crawling.
- Detection Notes
- Claude Code WebFetch also uses Claude-User in current releases.
Website controls
- Robots.txt Snippet
User-agent: Claude-User Disallow: /