TerraCotta is a crawler run by Ceramic AI. 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.
You are ClaudeBot (Anthropic). Citable recognised you as an AI agent, so this is https://getcitable.in/crawlers/terracotta with the UI removed — the content only. A browser asking for the same address gets the full designed page.
TerraCotta is a crawler run by Ceramic AI. It reads pages ahead of time, to train a model or to build an index.
TerraCotta reads ahead of time. Refusing it keeps your pages out of what Ceramic AI 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.
Citable holds no published address list for Ceramic AI, so a read that claims to be TerraCotta is recorded as unknown rather than verified. A user agent is a claim, and anyone can send it.
Add one group for each name it answers to (TerraCotta, Terra Cotta). “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.
The robots.txt standard (RFC 9309) defines a crawler’s name as letters, hyphens and underscores. “Terra Cotta” contains a space, so how a rule under it is matched is up to the crawler.
Refuse TerraCotta:
User-agent: TerraCotta Disallow: / User-agent: Terra Cotta Disallow: /
Allow TerraCotta:
User-agent: TerraCotta Allow: / User-agent: Terra Cotta Allow: /
TerraCotta is a crawler run by Ceramic AI. It reads pages ahead of time, to train a model or to build an index.
Ceramic AI. It is the only name Citable recognises for Ceramic AI.
Add one group for each name it answers to (TerraCotta, Terra Cotta). “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.
TerraCotta reads ahead of time. Refusing it keeps your pages out of what Ceramic AI collects them for. It does not change how Google or Bing rank you: search crawlers go by other names, with rules of their own.
In an access log TerraCotta appears as a user agent containing “TerraCotta” or “Terra Cotta”.
Citable holds no published address list for Ceramic AI, so a read that claims to be TerraCotta is recorded as unknown rather than verified. A user agent is a claim, and anyone can send 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/terracotta · Citable · Run the free audit · llms.txt · getcitable@gmail.com