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title: robots.txt for AI crawlers GPTBot ClaudeBot PerplexityBot
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**Short answer.** Each AI company runs separate crawlers for training, for search indexing, and for user-triggered fetches. To be cited by answer engines while opting out of training, allow the search and fetch agents and disallow the training agents.

## Known user agents

| Company | Training | Search index | User-triggered fetch |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| OpenAI | `GPTBot` | `OAI-SearchBot` | `ChatGPT-User` |
| Anthropic | `ClaudeBot` | `Claude-SearchBot` | `Claude-User` |
| Perplexity | `PerplexityBot` | `PerplexityBot` | `Perplexity-User` |
| Google | `Google-Extended` (token, affects Gemini training) | `Googlebot` | none separate |
| Apple | `Applebot-Extended` | `Applebot` | |
| Common Crawl | `CCBot` | | |

## Example: allow answers, refuse training

```
User-agent: GPTBot
Disallow: /
User-agent: ClaudeBot
Disallow: /
User-agent: *
Allow: /
Content-Signal: search=yes, ai-input=yes, ai-train=no
```

## Pitfalls

- Blocking `Googlebot` or `Google-Extended` removes you from AI Overviews only via the former; `Google-Extended` affects training, not Overviews.
- User-triggered fetchers generally ignore robots.txt by design; block them at the CDN if needed.
- The `Content-Signal` line is a convention (Cloudflare, 2025), honored voluntarily.

## Sources

- OpenAI [bots](https://platform.openai.com/docs/bots), Anthropic [crawler docs](https://support.anthropic.com/en/articles/8896518), Perplexity [crawlers](https://docs.perplexity.ai/guides/bots), Google [crawlers](https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/overview-google-crawlers) (checked 2026-09-10).