Overview
CiteSurgeAuditBot is an on-demand crawler used by CiteSurge for bounded AI-readiness checks.
It identifies itself as CiteSurgeAuditBot/0.1 (+https://citesurge.com/bot) and uses CiteSurgeAuditBot as its robots.txt token.
The documented check reads robots.txt first and, when permitted, requests a limited set of public readiness resources rather than broadly crawling a site. It supports robots.txt blocking.
The identity is verified with High confidence from current operator documentation; the user-agent itself remains spoofable.
Identity
- User-Agent Pattern
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CiteSurgeAuditBot - Aliases
- CiteSurgeAuditBot/0.1
- HTTP Agent Examples
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CiteSurgeAuditBot/0.1 (+https://citesurge.com/bot) - Robots Token
- CiteSurgeAuditBot
- Identity Type
- Officially documented
- Evidence Method
- Match the `CiteSurgeAuditBot` token and current documented request behavior. Treat the user-agent as a claim unless corroborated by stronger source evidence.
Classification
- Type
- Audit
- Kind
- Crawler
- Family
- CiteSurge
- Purpose
- AI readiness auditing
Behavior and handling
- Common Use
- Runs bounded AI-readiness checks against public site resources.
- Detection Notes
- Detect by the exact `CiteSurgeAuditBot` token. The documented scan is on-demand and bounded rather than a continuous background crawler.
- Respects robots.txt
- Yes
- Spoofing Risk
- The user-agent can be copied; use request behavior and source evidence for stronger corroboration.
- Risk
- Neutral
- Recommended Handling
- Depends
Rules and controls
- Robots.txt Snippet
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User-agent: CiteSurgeAuditBot Disallow: / - Apache Rule
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RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} "CiteSurgeAuditBot" [NC] RewriteRule ^ - [F,L] - Nginx Rule
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if ($http_user_agent ~* "CiteSurgeAuditBot") { return 403; }
Relationships
- Operator
- CiteSurge Checked 2026-09-02
Relationships without an Evidence link are normalized from the canonical directory record. They should not be interpreted as independent proof of physical presence or request origin.