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# cohere-ai

cohere-ai is Cohere's ai answers crawler token. Blocking it costs points in the AI readiness score. 15.8% of the top 1,000 websites with a robots.txt block it.

Cohere's crawler page says it does not currently use bots to crawl or scrape the web for training, and names no active user agent. This token comes from community lists.

## Where this comes from

- **Community-listed; no vendor documentation.** Source: [docs.cohere.com](https://docs.cohere.com/docs/cohere-web-crawlers)
- **Robots.txt behaviour undocumented.**
- **Counted in the readiness score.** It can keep a site out of AI search or answers, so a block costs points.

## In the top 1,000 websites

- **15.8% block it in robots.txt** (90 of the 569 sites with a robots.txt), as of 2026-10-12.
- Method, limits and the full data: [the October 2026 study of the top 1,000 websites](https://www.crawlreadiness.com/research/ai-crawler-access-october-2026).

## What blocking it costs

Cohere says this token controls more than training, so a block can keep your pages out of its answers or product features. The score counts it, so a block costs points.

## The robots.txt lines

To let it in (a group that names the crawler replaces any wildcard rules for it, so this also lifts a `User-agent: *` block):

```
User-agent: cohere-ai
Allow: /
```

To keep it out:

```
User-agent: cohere-ai
Disallow: /
```

A rule in robots.txt is a request. Whether this crawler honours it is undocumented. The [robots.txt generator](https://www.crawlreadiness.com/tools/robots-txt) writes a whole file with the same split: block the training crawlers, keep the search and answer crawlers.

## Also from [Cohere](https://www.crawlreadiness.com/crawlers/vendor/cohere)

- [`cohere-training-data-crawler`](https://www.crawlreadiness.com/crawlers/cohere-training-data-crawler) · Training only

## Does cohere-ai get through on your site?

[Run the free check](https://www.crawlreadiness.com/): it reads your robots.txt against all 51 crawlers and tells you which ones can read you, and what to change.

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Source: https://www.crawlreadiness.com/crawlers/cohere-ai