Allow or block HenkBot on Adobe Commerce (Magento): Search Engine Robots in the Admin

In the Admin open Content → Design → Configuration → Edit → Search Engine Robots, add a “User-agent: HenkBot” group with “Disallow: /” to the custom instructions, and save the configuration.

This response

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

HenkBot, and where Adobe Commerce (Magento) keeps the rule

HenkBot is a crawler run by Valyu. It reads pages ahead of time, to train a model or to build an index.

Adobe Commerce and Magento Open Source generate robots.txt from the Search Engine Robots section of the design configuration.

Step by step

What to paste

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 HenkBot:

User-agent: HenkBot
Disallow: /

Allow HenkBot:

User-agent: HenkBot
Allow: /

What trips people up

On Adobe Commerce cloud projects, robots.txt keeps showing the default content until indexing by search engines is enabled for the environment. A saved rule that never appears is usually this.

Asked, or actually refused?

The Admin offers robots.txt only. A refusal that is enforced is made by the web server in front of the store; see HenkBot on Nginx or on Apache.

Check it yourself

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 HenkBot differently.

The request:

curl -I -A "HenkBot" https://your-site.example/

Questions

How do I block HenkBot on Adobe Commerce (Magento)?

In the Admin open Content → Design → Configuration → Edit → Search Engine Robots, add a “User-agent: HenkBot” group with “Disallow: /” to the custom instructions, and save the configuration.

How do I allow HenkBot on Adobe Commerce (Magento)?

A crawler that robots.txt does not name follows the * group, so HenkBot needs no rule to be allowed. To allow it by name, add the Allow block.

Can Adobe Commerce (Magento) actually stop HenkBot, or only ask it?

The Admin offers robots.txt only. A refusal that is enforced is made by the web server in front of the store; see HenkBot on Nginx or on Apache.

Does a rule for HenkBot affect Googlebot or my Google rankings?

No. Googlebot goes by its own name and follows its own rules; a group or a firewall rule for HenkBot does not apply to it.

Checked against Adobe Commerce (Magento)'s own documentation on 1 October 2026

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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/henkbot/magento · Citable · Run the free audit · llms.txt · getcitable@gmail.com