Unveiling good and bad behaviors on the Agentic Internet
Aug 7, 2026Jin-Hee Lee, Marina Elmore
Summary
This post details the Web Integrity & Trust team's strategy for managing 'agentic' internet traffic, focusing on a 'Trust' framework over simple risk assessment. It introduces the Precursor system for continuous, session-wide behavioral analysis to detect subtle bot activity and drive up the cost for bot developers. The post also announces updates to BotBase to track all known bots and the upcoming 'Adaptive Intelligence' engine for predictive bot detection. Interactive demos and advanced mitigation strategies like unpredictable responses and AI Labyrinth are discussed.
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