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Do you respect robots.txt so administrators can block this tool?

Should I be blocked if I ask Claude Desktop to lower the prices in all of my Craigslist ads by 10%?

Do user agents doing work for users need to respect robots.txt? If yes, does chrome?

Any scraper is also a “user agent doing work for users”. Which ones should respect robots.tx?

Does the user agent fit the definition of a web crawler? If so, then observe robots.txt. This one does not, see https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_crawler