Cloudflare & Browserbase: Pioneering Identity for AI Agents

For AI to be productive, agents need reliable, responsible web access. Browserbase provides web browsing capabilities for some of the largest AI applications. But today, websites can’t tell the difference between a trusted agent and a malicious bot. As a result, even agents doing meaningful work remain limited by defenses built for abuse. The internet needs a better way to distinguish good actors from bad ones.

That’s why we're excited to partner with Cloudflare to support the adoption of Web Bot Auth, a critical layer of identity for agents. With Web Bot Auth, Browserbase will be able to assert the good intentions of our customer’s agents in a cryptographically secure way. Think of it like a passport for your AI agent as it browses the web on your behalf.

Our customers are at the forefront of deploying AI in production for enterprises and consumers around the world. Whether they are automating compliance for financial institutions, improving AI responses with the latest information, or giving agents access to the same applications that human employees use, they are defining what AI can achieve in practice.

It has become increasingly clear that a key challenge holding back more complex workflows is Identity.

Copy linkThe Problem

In the past, the predominant use case for bots were crawlers, and there were only a few legitimate organizations with the resources to operate these at scale. AI has radically changed this, enabling more people every day to deploy autonomous agents that perform tasks on their behalf.

To meet the needs of billions of agents coming online over the next few years, we need a better system. Web Bot Auth is the first among many steps to provide better systems for AI browsing on your behalf

Copy linkWhat is Web Bot Auth?

Think of Web Bot Auth as like giving your agent a verified passport. When Browserbase “issues” this passport, it's equipping the agent with a secure cryptographic signature that acts like a proof of identity. Just as a real passport shows who you are and lets you travel internationally, this digital version proves the agent is legitimate and allowed to “travel” across websites.

When the agent arrives at a site, it presents its passport. The website (and likely its anti-bot providers) checks the signature, confirms it's from a trusted source, then lets the agent through. It's a clear and elegant way for websites to know who they’re letting in, without trusting just IPs or plain user-agent strings.

However, just like a passport, this identity is only as useful as the number of trusted partnerships that accept it and are able to validate it. At Browserbase, it’s our role to continue to develop these partnerships to allow our customer to reliably access the web.

Copy linkWhat's Next

Right now, we are actively working with Cloudflare, pilot customers, and other leading anti-bot providers to expand web access for AI. Browserbase is already the leading browser infrastructure provider for AI with good intent and these early partnerships are proof of that. We want our partners and customers to know that when they see an AI with a Browserbase Identity appear on their website, that it represents a trustworthy human, with an agent acting on their behalf.

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