cohere-ai
Operator unconfirmed · Unconfirmed Not in Cohere’s docs · robots.txt: Unconfirmed
Not in Cohere’s current crawler documentation (checked 2026-09-24). A robots.txt line naming cohere-ai may do nothing: robots.txt only works through the names a crawler answers to, and Cohere does not document this one.
Cohere's crawler documentation lists no crawler tokens at all.
Every fact below is unconfirmed by the operator: Cohere's documentation does not mention this token, so this page states nothing about what it does. The robots.txt lines below are still correct syntax for it.
Block cohere-ai
User-agent: cohere-ai
Disallow: /Unconfirmed by the operator No operator documentation says whether cohere-ai reads robots.txt at all, so these lines are a request it may or may not honour.
Allow cohere-ai
User-agent: cohere-ai
Allow: /An allow group only changes anything if a broader rule would block cohere-ai. Under the robots.txt standard (RFC 9309, section 2.2.1) a crawler follows the group that names it and uses the User-agent: * group only when no group does — so this group lets it in even if your * group says Disallow: /. Token matching is case-insensitive.
Put these lines in /robots.txt at the root of each host (each subdomain has its own file). robots.txt is a request to well-behaved crawlers, not access control.
Already have a robots.txt? Paste it into the robots.txt checker to see whether it blocks cohere-ai on a given path, and which line decides.
Facts
- Operator
- Unconfirmed by the operator Cohere's current crawler documentation does not list this token.
- Purpose
- Unconfirmed by the operator
- Obeys robots.txt
- Unconfirmed by the operator
- In your server logs
- Unconfirmed by the operator The documentation we checked does not give its user-agent string.
- How to verify it
- Unconfirmed by the operator The documentation we checked gives no IP list or DNS check for this crawler, so a request claiming to be cohere-ai cannot be verified against the operator.
What Cohere says
Quoted word for word from the operator's documentation.
“We do not use Cohere bots or user agents for the purpose of crawling or scraping web content to train generative AI foundation models at this time.”
“Should Cohere make use of these tools to crawl or scrape web content to train AI models in the future, Cohere will identify those bots and/or user agents in the table below alongside information about how to disallow their access to your site.”
Sources
- Cohere Docs: Cohere Web Crawlers — fetched and checked 2026-09-24
Where we looked
- docs.cohere.com/docs/cohere-web-crawlers — 2026-09-24: Loaded; the crawler table reads "N/A". No mention of cohere-ai.