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fix(robots-for-ai-crawlers): update Anthropic crawler citation and user-agents - #285

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What changed

robots-for-ai-crawlers, found in today's rotating citation check (agent-readiness):

  • Citation moved. support.anthropic.com/en/articles/8896518-… now returns a 301 to support.claude.com/en/articles/8896518-…. The new URL loads and has the same title.
  • Body no longer matched the source. The page called ClaudeBot Anthropic's "training and retrieval crawler". The current vendor page lists three separate agents: ClaudeBot (training), Claude-SearchBot (search indexing) and Claude-User (on-demand fetches for a user's question). The list now has all three, and the example robots.txt allows Claude-SearchBot and Claude-User alongside the OpenAI retrieval agents. It already disallowed ClaudeBot, so it still matches its stated aim: allow search and retrieval, opt out of training. One "Common mistakes" line notes the same split for Anthropic. updated bumped.

Status unchanged (recommended).

Changelog

Borderline. It's a citation fix plus a corrected crawler description, not a rewrite, so I added no changelog entry. Add a changed entry if you think it should be surfaced.

Pre-merge checks

  • platform.openai.com/docs/bots (same page) can't be reached from the scan sandbox, so it is unverified.
  • npm run build passes. Lint and format pass. Skill check passes (178 pages).

🤖 Generated with Claude Code

…er-agents

support.anthropic.com now 301s to support.claude.com. The current page
documents three Anthropic agents (ClaudeBot for training, Claude-SearchBot
for search indexing, Claude-User for on-demand fetches); the spec described
ClaudeBot as training and retrieval.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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