Search intent
Users need to separate Claude training, search, and user-requested fetches.
Practical checklist
- Treat ClaudeBot as the training crawler in most policy templates.
- Treat Claude-SearchBot as a discovery crawler if citation visibility matters.
- Treat Claude-User as user-triggered access and decide based on product needs.
Copy-paste starter pattern
User-agent: OAI-SearchBot Allow: / User-agent: ChatGPT-User Allow: / User-agent: Claude-SearchBot Allow: / User-agent: Claude-User Allow: / User-agent: PerplexityBot Allow: / User-agent: Perplexity-User Allow: / User-agent: GPTBot Disallow: / User-agent: ClaudeBot Disallow: / User-agent: Google-Extended Disallow: / User-agent: Applebot-Extended Disallow: / User-agent: CCBot Disallow: / User-agent: Bytespider Disallow: / User-agent: FacebookBot Disallow: / User-agent: Amazonbot Disallow: / User-agent: cohere-ai Disallow: / User-agent: * Allow: / Sitemap: https://example.com/sitemap.xml