Cohere AI

Operator

Cohere, Inc.

Type

AI Data Scraper

Official page

cohere.com

robots.txt token

cohere-ai

In Vireo

Excluded, reported under AI crawlers

What it does

Retrieves data based on user prompts.

ai.robots.txt describes its function as: Retrieves data to provide responses to user-initiated prompts.

Source: ai.robots.txt.

Crawl frequency, per ai.robots.txt: Takes action based on user prompts.

User agent

Requests from Cohere AI carry a user agent like this:

cohere-ai

Device Detector identifies it with this pattern (a case-insensitive regular expression):

cohere-ai

Anyone can put any name in a user agent. Where the operator publishes IP ranges, checking the request's address against them is the way to confirm a visit is genuine.

How to block or allow Cohere AI

Add a group for its token to the robots.txt file at the root of your site. To keep it out of the whole site:

User-agent: cohere-ai
Disallow: /

To let it crawl everything, use an empty Disallow: or Allow: / instead. WordPress serves a virtual robots.txt that many SEO plugins let you edit. A real robots.txt file uploaded to the site root takes its place.

robots.txt is a request, so it only works on crawlers that honour it. A bot that ignores it has to be blocked at the server or firewall, by user agent or IP address.

How Vireo counts Cohere AI

Vireo keeps requests from Cohere AI out of your pageviews and visitors and counts them on its bot report under AI crawlers, so you can see how much it left out rather than wonder why your server logs show more traffic.

Because it's an AI crawler, its requests also count toward the pages AI crawlers took, which Vireo shows next to the readers AI assistants sent back. See how the AI assistants card works.

Checked by running Vireo Analytics' own bot filter over Cohere AI's user agents.

Sources

• Cohere AI information page (cohere.com)
• Matomo Device Detector, bots.yml (LGPL-3.0)
• ai.robots.txt (MIT)