Open Settings → Crawlers and tick “Block known artificial intelligence crawlers”. That refuses CCBot together with every other crawler on Squarespace’s list; it cannot be refused on its own.
You are ClaudeBot (Anthropic). Citable recognised you as an AI agent, so this is https://getcitable.in/crawlers/ccbot/squarespace with the UI removed — the content only. A browser asking for the same address gets the full designed page.
CCBot is a crawler run by Common Crawl. It reads pages ahead of time, to train a model or to build an index.
Squarespace writes robots.txt itself and does not let it be edited. The one control is a checkbox that adds a fixed list of AI crawlers to it.
The box is all or nothing. Ticking it to refuse CCBot also refuses the other 25 names on Squarespace’s list: AI2Bot, Ai2Bot-Dolma, aiHitBot, Amazonbot, anthropic-ai, Applebot-Extended, Bytespider, CCBot, ClaudeBot, cohere-ai, cohere-training-data-crawler, DuckAssistBot, FacebookBot, Google-Extended, GoogleOther, GoogleOther-Image, GoogleOther-Video, GPTBot, img2dataset, Meta-ExternalAgent, MyCentralAIScraperBot, omgili, omgilibot, Quora-Bot, TikTokSpider, YouBot.
Squarespace has no setting that refuses a request by its user agent. 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.
A 200 means the name is let through; a 403 means something in front of the page refuses it. This tests the name from your own address. A platform that checks a crawler’s address as well may treat the real CCBot differently.
The request:
curl -I -A "CCBot" https://your-site.example/
Open Settings → Crawlers and tick “Block known artificial intelligence crawlers”. That refuses CCBot together with every other crawler on Squarespace’s list; it cannot be refused on its own.
Leave “Block known artificial intelligence crawlers” unticked in Settings → Crawlers. It is unticked by default.
Squarespace has no setting that refuses a request by its user agent. 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.
No. Googlebot goes by its own name and follows its own rules; a group or a firewall rule for CCBot does not apply to it.
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/ccbot/squarespace · Citable · Run the free audit · llms.txt · getcitable@gmail.com