atlassian-bot: what it is, who runs it, and how to allow or block it

atlassian-bot is a crawler run by Atlassian. It reads pages ahead of time, to train a model or to build an index. Its name in robots.txt, how it shows up in server logs, whether its identity can be checked, and how to allow or refuse it on each platform.

This response

You are ClaudeBot (Anthropic). Citable recognised you as an AI agent, so this is https://getcitable.in/crawlers/atlassian-bot with the UI removed — the content only. A browser asking for the same address gets the full designed page.

What atlassian-bot is

atlassian-bot is a crawler run by Atlassian. It reads pages ahead of time, to train a model or to build an index.

Should you refuse it?

atlassian-bot reads ahead of time. Refusing it keeps your pages out of what Atlassian collects them for. It does not change how Google or Bing rank you: search crawlers go by other names, with rules of their own.

robots.txt is a request. A crawler that honours it stays out; nothing in the file stops one that does not. What is enforced is what the server or the edge in front of it refuses.

Is a request really atlassian-bot?

Citable holds no published address list for Atlassian, so a read that claims to be atlassian-bot is recorded as unknown rather than verified. A user agent is a claim, and anyone can send it.

Allowing or refusing atlassian-bot in robots.txt

Add a group under its name, “User-agent: atlassian-bot”. “Allow: /” lets it read the site and “Disallow: /” refuses it.

A group that names a crawler replaces the * group for that crawler; it does not add to it. Paths the * group closes are open to a crawler with its own group unless they are repeated there.

Refuse atlassian-bot:

User-agent: atlassian-bot
Disallow: /

Allow atlassian-bot:

User-agent: atlassian-bot
Allow: /

Where the rule for atlassian-bot goes, platform by platform

Questions

What is atlassian-bot?

atlassian-bot is a crawler run by Atlassian. It reads pages ahead of time, to train a model or to build an index.

Who runs atlassian-bot?

Atlassian. It is the only name Citable recognises for Atlassian.

How do I allow or block atlassian-bot in robots.txt?

Add a group under its name, “User-agent: atlassian-bot”. “Allow: /” lets it read the site and “Disallow: /” refuses it. A group that names a crawler replaces the * group for that crawler; it does not add to it. Paths the * group closes are open to a crawler with its own group unless they are repeated there.

Should I block atlassian-bot?

atlassian-bot reads ahead of time. Refusing it keeps your pages out of what Atlassian collects them for. It does not change how Google or Bing rank you: search crawlers go by other names, with rules of their own.

How do I see atlassian-bot in my server logs?

In an access log atlassian-bot appears as a user agent containing “atlassian-bot”.

How do I know a request is really atlassian-bot?

Citable holds no published address list for Atlassian, so a read that claims to be atlassian-bot is recorded as unknown rather than verified. A user agent is a claim, and anyone can send it.

About Citable

Citable strips the UI from a website for AI agents and serves them only the content.

When an AI agent — ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity or any of the 81 that Citable recognises — opens a page, Citable removes the theme, scripts, navigation and layout and serves only the content: the same facts, at the same URL, on the site's own domain. People and Google still get the full designed page.

How it works: https://getcitable.in/how-it-works · Summary for AI agents: https://getcitable.in/llms.txt


Source: https://getcitable.in/crawlers/atlassian-bot · Citable · Run the free audit · llms.txt · getcitable@gmail.com