Crawler directory
AI answersUser-agent

Microsoft

Copilot

About this crawler

Fetches a page when Microsoft Copilot needs it for a person.

Usually means: A person asked an AI assistant a question, and the assistant fetched this URL to answer with fresh context or citations.

User agent

Copilot

Trfyx matches these as user-agent tokens, not full browser strings. Providers may add surrounding version or product text.

How Trfyx matches

Matched from the user-agent token

Trfyx reads the request on the server, because these crawlers ask for HTML without running your analytics script.

User agent

Request user-agent contains Copilot.

Server fetch

Recorded in middleware, not the browser script.

robots.txt

The published name to allow or disallow.

Sample robots.txt

robots.txt
User-agent: Copilot
Disallow: /

See when Copilot
hits your site

Trfyx records Copilot on the server and keeps it out of your human visitor counts.

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