cohere-ai: what it is, who runs it, and how to allow or block it

cohere-ai is a crawler run by Cohere. 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/cohere-ai with the UI removed — the content only. A browser asking for the same address gets the full designed page.

What cohere-ai is

cohere-ai is a crawler run by Cohere. It reads pages ahead of time, to train a model or to build an index.

Should you refuse it?

cohere-ai reads ahead of time. Refusing it keeps your pages out of what Cohere 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 cohere-ai?

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

Allowing or refusing cohere-ai in robots.txt

Add one group for each name it answers to (cohere-ai, cohere-training-data-crawler). “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 cohere-ai:

User-agent: cohere-ai
Disallow: /

User-agent: cohere-training-data-crawler
Disallow: /

Allow cohere-ai:

User-agent: cohere-ai
Allow: /

User-agent: cohere-training-data-crawler
Allow: /

Where the rule for cohere-ai goes, platform by platform

Questions

What is cohere-ai?

cohere-ai is a crawler run by Cohere. It reads pages ahead of time, to train a model or to build an index.

Who runs cohere-ai?

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

How do I allow or block cohere-ai in robots.txt?

Add one group for each name it answers to (cohere-ai, cohere-training-data-crawler). “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 cohere-ai?

cohere-ai reads ahead of time. Refusing it keeps your pages out of what Cohere 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 cohere-ai in my server logs?

In an access log cohere-ai appears as a user agent containing “cohere-ai” or “cohere-training-data-crawler”.

How do I know a request is really cohere-ai?

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

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