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Claude-User is Anthropic’s AI assistant fetcher

Claude-User is the agent Anthropic uses when Claude accesses a website to answer a user's question.

Verifiable operator Respects robots.txt

Our take

Allow

It fetches pages only for real user questions, and blocking it may reduce your visibility in Claude.

robots.txt token

User-agent: Claude-User

Activity

Claude-User is crawling more than last month

Requests per site per dayLAST 28 DAYS
Sep 28Oct 7Oct 16Oct 25
What it crawls30 DAYS
  • Content pages 71%
  • Not found (404) 29%
  • Other 0.5%

01 · Operator

Who operates Claude-User

Company
Anthropic
Official docs
support.claude.com

02 · Behavior

What Claude-User does

Claude-User fetches pages when a person asks Claude something that requires reading a website. It is triggered by user requests, not by automatic crawling. Anthropic states that disabling it prevents Claude from retrieving your content in response to user queries.

03 · Impact

Why Claude-User matters for your site

If you allow it

  • Claude can read and reference your page when users ask about it
  • Anthropic says blocking may reduce visibility in user-directed web search
  • Requests reflect real user demand

If you block it

  • You do not want Claude to fetch your pages for users
  • Fewer automated requests to your server

04 · Allow

How to allow Claude-User

robots.txt

User-agent: Claude-User
Allow: /

Cloudflare

# Security › WAF › Custom rules › Create rule
Expression: (http.user_agent contains "Claude-User")
Action:     Skip › All Super Bot Fight Mode rules

# Also check Security › Bots: "Block AI bots" can block it regardless of robots.txt.

WordPress

# WordPress serves a virtual robots.txt. Edit it with your SEO plugin:
# Yoast: SEO › Tools › File editor · Rank Math: General Settings › Edit robots.txt
User-agent: Claude-User
Allow: /

nginx

# nginx serves every user agent by default.
# Make sure no rule like this blocks it:
# if ($http_user_agent ~* "Claude\-User") { return 403; }

Apache

# Apache serves every user agent by default.
# Make sure .htaccess has no rule like this:
# RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} Claude\-User [NC]
# RewriteRule .* - [F,L]

05 · Block

How to block Claude-User

Claude-User follows robots.txt, so one rule is enough. Use a server or CDN rule only to stop spoofed copies.

robots.txt

User-agent: Claude-User
Disallow: /

Cloudflare

# Security › WAF › Custom rules › Create rule
Expression: (http.user_agent contains "Claude-User")
Action:     Block

WordPress

# WordPress serves a virtual robots.txt. Edit it with your SEO plugin:
# Yoast: SEO › Tools › File editor · Rank Math: General Settings › Edit robots.txt
User-agent: Claude-User
Disallow: /

nginx

# In your server { } block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "Claude\-User") {
    return 403;
}

Apache

# .htaccess
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} Claude\-User [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
</IfModule>

06 · User agents

User agents we see for Claude-User

User agentShareLast activeStatus
Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; Claude-User/1.0; +claude-user@anthrop… 43% Yesterday Verified
Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; Claude-User/1.0; +claude-user@anthrop… 20% Yesterday Unverified
Claude-User (claude-code/2.1.295; +https://support.anthropic.com/) 5.5% Yesterday Unverified
Claude-User (claude-code/2.1.299; +https://support.anthropic.com/) 4.7% Yesterday Unverified
Claude-User (claude-code/2.1.284; +https://support.anthropic.com/) 2.7% 2 days ago Unverified
Claude-User (claude-code/2.1.293; +https://support.anthropic.com/) 2.6% 2 days ago Unverified
Claude-User (claude-code/2.1.286; +https://support.anthropic.com/) 2.5% Yesterday Unverified
Claude-User (claude-code/2.1.304; +https://support.anthropic.com/) 2.2% Yesterday Unverified
Claude-User (claude-code/2.1.288; +https://support.anthropic.com/) 1.8% Yesterday Unverified
Claude-User (claude-code/2.1.308; +https://support.anthropic.com/) 1.4% Yesterday Unverified
Claude-User (claude-code/2.1.281; +https://support.anthropic.com/) 1.4% 7 days ago Unverified
Claude-User (claude-code/2.1.309; +https://support.anthropic.com/) 1.3% Yesterday Unverified
Claude-User (claude-code/2.1.296; +https://support.anthropic.com/) 1.2% 2 days ago Unverified
Claude-User (claude-code/2.1.289; +https://support.anthropic.com/) 1% 3 days ago Unverified
Claude-User (claude-code/2.1.287; +https://support.anthropic.com/) 0.9% 2 days ago Unverified

07 · Verification

Is it really Claude-User?

Anyone can copy a user agent. Real Claude-User requests come from the IP ranges published at claude.com/crawling/bots.json.

IP addresses we saw from verified Claude-User requests

IP rangeShareLast active
34.162.191.81/32 94% 10 days ago
160.79.106.129 0.7% Yesterday
160.79.106.135 0.6% Yesterday
160.79.106.130 0.6% Yesterday
160.79.106.132 0.5% Yesterday
160.79.106.128 0.5% Yesterday
160.79.106.131 0.5% Yesterday
160.79.106.139 0.4% Yesterday
160.79.106.137 0.4% Yesterday
160.79.106.143 0.4% Yesterday

Top 10 of 18 ranges. Always check against the operator’s current list; ranges change.

FAQ

Questions about Claude-User

Does Claude-User follow robots.txt?

Anthropic lists Claude-User among its bots that honor robots.txt, so a Disallow rule for Claude-User stops it from retrieving your pages.

What happens if I block Claude-User?

Anthropic says Claude will not retrieve your content in response to user queries, which may reduce your visibility for user-directed web search.

Is Claude-User used for AI training?

Anthropic describes Claude-User as supporting user requests; training crawling is done by ClaudeBot.

Last updated Oct 25, 2026

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