About this bot
CiteSurgeAuditBot is a audit crawler associated with CiteSurge and used for ai readiness auditing.
It can be identified in HTTP traffic by the CiteSurgeAuditBot identity family, including CiteSurgeAuditBot/0.1.
Directory status: Active. Identity classification: Verified with High confidence. Identity type: official-documented.
It is recorded as honoring robots.txt under CiteSurgeAuditBot.
Match the documented CiteSurgeAuditBot/0.1 identity and expected bounded audit behavior.
How to identify this bot
- User-agent and crawler identifiers
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CiteSurgeAuditBotCiteSurgeAuditBot/0.1 - Also known as
- CiteSurgeAuditBot/0.1
Details
- Kind
- Audit crawler
- Family
- CiteSurge
- Purpose
- AI readiness auditing
- Common Use
- Bounded website audits that evaluate AI/search discoverability and technical readiness.
- Respects robots.txt
- Yes
Verification
- Identity Type
- Officially documented
- Evidence Method
- Match the documented CiteSurgeAuditBot/0.1 identity and expected bounded audit behavior.
- Detection Notes
- The bot is an audit crawler rather than an open-ended search indexer.
Website controls
- Robots.txt Snippet
User-agent: CiteSurgeAuditBot Disallow: /- Apache Rule
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} "CiteSurgeAuditBot" [NC] RewriteRule ^ - [F,L]- Nginx Rule
if ($http_user_agent ~* "CiteSurgeAuditBot") { return 403; }