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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