Agent Ready Crawlers

The field guide to every AI crawler and agent at the door, and the vendors who decide who gets in.

Glossary

Disallow AI Training

In short

A Cloudflare Training-control setting launched 2026-09-15 that publishes a no-training preference in robots.txt, keeps Accountable mixed-use crawlers for search and blocks other training crawlers. It is one of the Cloudflare controls dated 2026-09-15 and the reason Block now stops Googlebot, Bingbot and Applebot while Disallow AI Training does not.

Definition

A Cloudflare Training-control setting launched 2026-09-15 that publishes a no-training preference in robots.txt, keeps Accountable mixed-use crawlers for search and blocks other training crawlers.

Sourced example

Under Disallow AI Training, training-only crawlers from Amazon, Anthropic, Meta and OpenAI are blocked. Source, read 2026-11-04.

How it shows up here

It is one of the Cloudflare controls dated 2026-09-15 and the reason Block now stops Googlebot, Bingbot and Applebot while Disallow AI Training does not.

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Sources

Last reviewed 2026-11-04