# Web Bot Auth (draft)

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/agent-readiness/web-bot-auth/  
**Provider:** Agent Readiness — https://apis.io/providers/agent-readiness/  
**Base URL:** https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-meunier-web-bot-auth-architecture/  
**Documentation:** https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-meunier-web-bot-auth-architecture/

Web Bot Auth (draft) is one of 15 APIs that [Agent Readiness](https://apis.io/providers/agent-readiness/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network. Tagged areas include Identity, Bot Auth, Agent Readiness, and Standards. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation.

IETF draft layering an "identified bot" profile on top of RFC 9421. A provider that publishes a directory of verified agent identities — or surfaces Web Bot Auth verdicts in its responses — is making agent traffic legible at the protocol layer instead of inferring it from User-Agent strings.

## Machine-readable artifacts (1)

- **Documentation** — https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-meunier-web-bot-auth-architecture/

## Other Agent Readiness APIs (12)

- [Model Context Protocol (MCP)](https://apis.io/apis/agent-readiness/model-context-protocol/)
- [OpenAPI Specification](https://apis.io/apis/agent-readiness/openapi-initiative/)
- [AsyncAPI Specification](https://apis.io/apis/agent-readiness/asyncapi-initiative/)
- [JSON Schema](https://apis.io/apis/agent-readiness/json-schema/)
- [Agent Skills](https://apis.io/apis/agent-readiness/agent-skills/)
- [/.well-known/api-catalog (RFC 9727)](https://apis.io/apis/agent-readiness/well-known-api-catalog/)
- [HTTP Message Signatures (RFC 9421)](https://apis.io/apis/agent-readiness/rfc-9421-http-message-signatures/)
- [Content-Usage / AIPREF (IETF AIPREF WG)](https://apis.io/apis/agent-readiness/content-usage-aipref/)
- [Cloudflare Content Signals](https://apis.io/apis/agent-readiness/cloudflare-content-signals/)
- [APIs.json](https://apis.io/apis/agent-readiness/apis-json/)
- [OpenID Connect](https://apis.io/apis/agent-readiness/openid-connect/)
- [Stripe API (reference provider)](https://apis.io/apis/agent-readiness/stripe-api/)

## Tags

Identity, Bot Auth, Agent Readiness, Standards

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