Website Security & Threat Management
The age of agents: cryptographically recognizing agent traffic

The age of agents: cryptographically recognizing agent traffic

8/28/2025 · Jin-Hee Lee

What this post added

This post introduces 'signed agents,' a new classification within Cloudflare's bot management capabilities. It extends the existing verified bots program by leveraging Web Bot Auth and cryptographic signatures to identify and manage agents directed by end-users, distinct from bots operated by single companies. This provides customers with more granular control over automated traffic through security rules and enhances transparency via the Radar Bots Directory, which now includes both signed agents and verified bots.

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