What is Claude-SearchBot?
Claude-SearchBot is used to create an index of websites that can be surfaced as results in Anthropic's Claude AI assistant search feature. Agent Analytics can track when it visits your website.
Overview
| Operated By | Anthropic |
| Expected To Follow Robots.txt | Yes |
| Insights Last Updated | August 11, 2026 |
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Expected Behavior
Claude-SearchBot revisits your site on a flexible schedule, often requesting several pages in a burst. Activity usually increases when your content changes or its index refreshes, with quiet intervals between crawl passes.
Claude-SearchBot's User Agent
| User Agent | Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; Claude-SearchBot/1.0; +searchbot@anthropic.com) |
How To Block Claude-SearchBot With Robots.txt
Add this rule to your robots.txt file to block Claude-SearchBot from accessing your entire website, or use Automatic Robots.txt to block all AI search crawlers at once. You can customize which pages are blocked by swapping out / for a different path.
User-agent: Claude-SearchBot # https://knownagents.com/agents/claude-searchbot
Disallow: /Global Statistics for Claude-SearchBot
As of August 11, 2026, this data reflects agent visits measured across thousands of websites using Agent Analytics, combined with daily scans of the top 1000 websites and their robots.txt files.
Robots.txt Blocked Percentage
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Robots.txt Blocking Trend
11% of top websites block Claude-SearchBot in their robots.txt files.
Overall AI Search Crawler Traffic
1.9% of all web traffic came from AI search crawlers.
Top Visited Website Categories
The types of websites most frequently visited by Claude-SearchBot.
Frequently Asked Questions
Should I Block Claude-SearchBot?
Usually not. Blocking Claude-SearchBot keeps your pages out of its AI search results and can eliminate referral traffic from that channel. It does not improve traditional search rankings. For context, 11% of the top websites we track currently have robots.txt rules for Claude-SearchBot.
Does Claude-SearchBot Follow Robots.txt Rules?
Yes. Claude-SearchBot is expected to follow robots.txt directives, so a disallow rule is the appropriate first step. Automatic Robots.txt can add and maintain that rule, while Agent Analytics lets you verify whether Claude-SearchBot respects it.
Does Claude-SearchBot Access Private Content?
No special access. Claude-SearchBot can reach only content available to anonymous visitors. Make sure staging sites and other sensitive areas require authentication.
Why Is Claude-SearchBot Visiting My Website?
Claude-SearchBot is updating an AI search index so your pages can appear in its results. It may have discovered your site through links, a sitemap, or mentions of your domain.
How Can I Tell if Claude-SearchBot Is Visiting My Website?
Agent Analytics tracks visits from Claude-SearchBot and every other known AI agent, crawler, and scraper, then authenticates each visit using Claude-SearchBot's published verification method. You can also check your server logs for requests whose user-agent string contains "Claude-SearchBot". Look for bursts that follow links across several pages and recur over time. A matching log entry alone is not proof because any bot can claim to be Claude-SearchBot.