ClaudeBot

Talonus bookwormus

Discentes, the learners. Autonomous bot.

A joke about the drawing Clawed, and wears reading glasses.

The line above plays on the name. It says nothing about how the bot behaves: everything below is read from the request log, for today and the 29 days before it, by UTC date.

Alignment

Insufficient data. A judgement needs at least 200 requests and 5 sessions in the trailing 30 days. This one would rest on verified sessions only, so it is a statement about Anthropic’s bot: 33 requests in 3 sessions over the trailing 30 days.

How the score is worked out, and the count behind every input, is on the Census page.

Who runs it, and how that is checked

Who runs it: Anthropic
A user-agent string it sends: Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; ClaudeBot/1.0; +claudebot@anthropic.com)
What it says it is for: ClaudeBot is Anthropic’s bot for gathering pages that may be used to train its models. Anthropic says its bots follow robots.txt, including Crawl-delay.

Everything above is a claim: the operator’s own account where it has published one, and a third party’s where it has not. This site has not tested it. What the bot has done is in the sections below, read from the request log.

Operator: Anthropic
What its documentation says: A source address on the published list indicates the bot is coming from Anthropic. The list covers all of its bots, not ClaudeBot alone. No reverse DNS method is given.
Source: The operator’s documentation

Customs checks a session that says it is ClaudeBot in the way Anthropic documents. Passing any one check is enough.

A match against the list of addresses the operator publishes. The published list.

The name it is matched on

A request is filed under this species when its user-agent string contains the product name ClaudeBot as a whole word, in any mix of capitals. Where a string holds more than one product name, the longest wins, and a named bot wins over a library it is built on.

How to address this bot in robots.txt

A group in robots.txt addresses this bot by the line:

User-agent: ClaudeBot

An example group. The path is a placeholder.

User-agent: ClaudeBot
Disallow: /a-path/
Allow: /a-path/one-page

This is reference, not advice. Systema Machinae is not a bot-blocking product.

This site’s own robots.txt names it, in the group that keeps the guest list off the Private Beach.

Landings

3 landings in the trailing 30 days. A landing is the first request of a session.

Verified sessions passed Customs. Unverified sessions said they were ClaudeBot and could not be checked, or have not been answered yet: they are shown for the species and are not put down to Anthropic. Sessions that failed are not on this page at all.

By day

VerifiedUnverified

The same figures as a table

Landings on each of the last 30 days, UTC
Day	Verified	Total
9 Sep	0	0
10 Sep	0	0
11 Sep	0	0
12 Sep	0	0
13 Sep	0	0
14 Sep	0	0
15 Sep	0	0
16 Sep	0	0
17 Sep	0	0
18 Sep	0	0
19 Sep	0	0
20 Sep	0	0
21 Sep	0	0
22 Sep	0	0
23 Sep	0	0
24 Sep	0	0
25 Sep	0	0
26 Sep	0	0
27 Sep	0	0
28 Sep	0	0
29 Sep	0	0
30 Sep	0	0
1 Oct	0	0
2 Oct	0	0
3 Oct	0	0
4 Oct	0	0
5 Oct	0	0
6 Oct	0	0
7 Oct	0	0
8 Oct	3	3

By hour of the day, UTC

VerifiedUnverified

The same figures as a table

Landings in each hour of the UTC day, over the last 30 days
Hour	Verified	Total
00:00	0	0
01:00	0	0
02:00	0	0
03:00	0	0
04:00	0	0
05:00	0	0
06:00	0	0
07:00	0	0
08:00	0	0
09:00	0	0
10:00	0	0
11:00	0	0
12:00	0	0
13:00	0	0
14:00	0	0
15:00	0	0
16:00	0	0
17:00	1	1
18:00	1	1
19:00	1	1
20:00	0	0
21:00	0	0
22:00	0	0
23:00	0	0

Busiest hour: 17:00 UTC, with 1 landing.

What it asks for

Part of the site	Verified requests	Unverified requests
The island, on the home page	2	0
Species pages	4	0
Rules pages	3	0
Census pages	2	0
The About page	2	0
The Editions page	1	0
robots.txt, on the buoy	5	0
The sitemap	1	0
The other notice-board files	10	0
The Turnstile	1	0
The Side gate	2	0

Parts of the site, from a fixed list. The address of a request is never shown.

Its record with each rule

Trailing 30 days	Verified	Unverified
Sessions	3	0
Requests	33	0
Sessions that asked for anything besides robots.txt	3	0
read robots.txt first	2	0
had read it in the 24 hours before	1	0
read it only afterwards	0	0
did not read it	0	0
Sessions that entered the Pitfall	0	0
having read robots.txt	0	0
Requests turned back at the vault, with a 403	0	0
Highest Climb level reached	Has not climbed	Has not climbed
Private Beach visits while on the guest list	0	0
Turnstile waits kept	0	0
Turnstile waits broken	0	0
Requests over the rate limit	0	0
sessions that went over it	0	0

These are counts, not a verdict. A session is judged on what it did inside the 30 days.

Customs

Sessions that said they were this bot	Trailing 30 days
Passed: verified	3
Could not be checked: unverified	0
Not yet answered: unverified	0
Failed, and filed under Googlebot (unverified)	0

Nothing a failed session did is counted anywhere else on this page.

Where it comes from

Verified sessions, the busiest 1
Network owner	Country	Sessions	Requests
Amazon.com, Inc.	United States	3	33

Network owner and country only. An address is never shown.