anthropic-ai

anthropic-ai is a legacy published Anthropic token. Motif keeps it as an explicit identity so old User-Agents do not vanish into generic bot noise.

Operator
Anthropic
Motif family
anthropic
Motif class
Model-related crawler
In Motif classifier
Yes
robots.txt
Treat as a legacy Anthropic token; confirm against current vendor docs
Executes JavaScript
No
Verified in Motif
Self-reported User-Agent only in Motif

What Motif will and will not claim

Motif classifies anthropic-ai as family anthropic, class model. Prefer ClaudeBot, Claude-User, and Claude-SearchBot for current robots.txt policy.

Revenue

Same rule as other model crawlers: not a visitor, cannot win.

Vendor documentation

Start with the vendor page at https://support.anthropic.com/en/articles/8896518-does-anthropic-crawl-data-from-the-web. Motif stores the controlled token from a self-reported User-Agent.

anthropic-ai User-Agent example

anthropic-ai

Allow anthropic-ai in robots.txt

User-agent: anthropic-ai
Allow: /

Block anthropic-ai in robots.txt

User-agent: anthropic-ai
Disallow: /

Does anthropic-ai count as a visit in Motif?

No. If anthropic-ai hits the Motif tracker or collector it increments AI crawlers. It does not create a visitor and cannot win a recommendation.

Will Motif show anthropic-ai on my HTML pages?

Only if that client requested /m.js or POST /v1/events. HTML-only crawls of the origin never reach Motif. Saying otherwise would be a product lie.

Should I block anthropic-ai?

Model-related crawlers are a data-policy call. Allowing or blocking them does not create Stripe customers. Motif will not pretend a crawler hit is demand.

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