Overview
Poggio Citations is an AI search crawler from Poggio used for AI search indexing, answer retrieval, citation discovery, and page freshness checks.
Its primary user-agent pattern is Poggio-Citations.
Poggio Citations is not independently verified with Low confidence. The identity type is Observed, and the evidence basis is observed traffic patterns and user-agent evidence.
Robots.txt behavior is not currently confirmed.
Poggio Citations should be handled according to the site owner’s AI crawler policy, with allow, block, or rate-limit rules applied deliberately.
Identity
- User-Agent
Poggio-Citations- Robots.txt Token
Poggio-Citations- Identity Type
- Observed
- Evidence Method
- Verify Poggio Citations by matching `Poggio-Citations` to Poggio evidence, then checking reverse DNS, source-network ownership, signed request data, or published crawler documentation when available.
Classification
- Type
- AI
- Kind
- Fetcher
- Family
- Poggio
- Purpose
- ai-search
Behavior and handling
- Common Use
- Poggio Citations is used for AI search indexing, answer retrieval, citation discovery, and page freshness checks.
- Detection Notes
- Poggio Citations traffic is primarily detected by the `Poggio-Citations` user-agent pattern. Compare source IPs, reverse DNS, request paths, and crawl cadence with Poggio infrastructure before trusting the traffic.
- Respects robots.txt
- Unknown
- Spoofing Risk
- Poggio Citations has high spoofing risk because the pattern is low-confidence or observation-based; do not trust the user-agent by itself.
- Risk
- Neutral
- Recommended Handling
- Depends
Rules and controls
- Robots.txt Snippet
# robots.txt behavior is unconfirmed. Do not rely on this rule without verification.