What is cohere-ai?
cohere-ai is an unconfirmed agent possibly dispatched by Cohere's AI chat products in response to user prompts when it needs to retrieve content on the internet. Agent Analytics can track when it visits your website.
Overview
| Operated By | Cohere |
| Expected To Follow Robots.txt | Yes |
| Insights Last Updated | August 11, 2026 |
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Expected Behavior
cohere-ai has no reliable traffic profile. Its crawl rate and targeting may change without notice, so the patterns recorded in Agent Analytics are the best guide to its behavior.
cohere-ai's User Agent
| User Agent | Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; cohere-ai/1.0; +https://cohere.com) |
How To Block cohere-ai With Robots.txt
Add this rule to your robots.txt file to block cohere-ai from accessing your entire website, or use Automatic Robots.txt to block all undocumented AI agents at once. You can customize which pages are blocked by swapping out / for a different path.
User-agent: cohere-ai # https://knownagents.com/agents/cohere-ai
Disallow: /Global Statistics for cohere-ai
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
Country of Origin
Robots.txt Blocking Trend
14% of top websites block cohere-ai in their robots.txt files.
Overall Undocumented AI Agent Traffic
0.0% of all web traffic came from undocumented AI agents.
Top Visited Website Categories
The types of websites most frequently visited by cohere-ai.
Frequently Asked Questions
Should I Block cohere-ai?
Be cautious. Cohere has not stated why cohere-ai visits, so any benefit is difficult to weigh against the cost. Block it if the traffic is excessive or targets content you do not want collected. Doing so does not affect traditional search rankings. For context, 14% of the top websites we track currently have robots.txt rules for cohere-ai.
Does cohere-ai Follow Robots.txt Rules?
Yes. cohere-ai 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 cohere-ai respects it.
Does cohere-ai Access Private Content?
Unknown. No access boundaries have been published for cohere-ai. Assume it can read anything publicly reachable, and make sure sensitive areas require authentication.
Why Is cohere-ai Visiting My Website?
Cohere has not disclosed why it visits. Possibilities include training-data collection, index building, or an unannounced experiment. Its request pattern is the best available clue to its purpose.
How Can I Tell if cohere-ai Is Visiting My Website?
Agent Analytics tracks cohere-ai visits in real time alongside every other known AI agent, crawler, and scraper. You can also check your server logs for requests whose user-agent string contains "cohere-ai". Compare its volume and targets over time; sudden changes may reveal a shift in purpose. Because cohere-ai does not publish a verification method, any client can claim its identity and a log match is only a clue.