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Cohere bots and crawlers
Cohere builds language models for enterprise AI products.
Cohere bots at a glance
- Cohere runs 2 bots listed in this directory.
- They belong to: AI Assistant Fetchers, AI Training Crawlers.
- Each Cohere bot has its own robots.txt token, so each purpose can be allowed or blocked separately.
- Website: cohere.com
Every Cohere bot
| Bot | Group | Purpose | robots.txt | For GEO |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| cohere-ai | AI Assistant Fetchers | AI assistantReported | Not documented | Your choice |
| cohere-training-data-crawler | AI Training Crawlers | AI trainingReported | Not documented | Your choice |
Block or allow all Cohere bots
The rules below name every Cohere token in this directory. To block training but keep AI search, delete the search and assistant tokens from the block rule.
robots.txt: block
# Block all Cohere bots
User-agent: cohere-ai
User-agent: cohere-training-data-crawler
Disallow: /robots.txt: allow
# Allow all Cohere bots
User-agent: cohere-ai
User-agent: cohere-training-data-crawler
Allow: /robots.txt: partial
# Keep all Cohere bots out of private areas only
User-agent: cohere-ai
User-agent: cohere-training-data-crawler
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Disallow: /cart/
Disallow: /checkout/
Disallow: /my-account/
Allow: /Nginx
# Nginx: return 403 to all Cohere bots
if ($http_user_agent ~* "(cohere\-ai|cohere\-training\-data\-crawler)") {
return 403;
}Apache
# Apache .htaccess: return 403 to all Cohere bots
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} (cohere\-ai|cohere\-training\-data\-crawler) [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]Cloudflare WAF
# Cloudflare > Security > WAF > Custom rule, action: Block
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