Glossary · Network & evasion

Bot detection

The vendor systems sitting in front of a site that decide whether a visitor is automated — and what to do about it.

What is bot detection?

Bot detection covers a family of commercial systems that score or challenge incoming traffic. They divide into two kinds with very different implications: interactive challenges you might clear in session, and invisible reputation scores you cannot. Twin fingerprints which vendor turned a run away and classifies the wall accordingly.

Why it matters

Naming the wall is what makes the next step rational rather than superstitious. Retrying a challenge on a better browser profile is sometimes right; retrying a score wall the same way is spending money on an outcome that will not change.

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Put your agent to work. Keep the decision.

Give your agent a real browser, authorize the accounts it may use, and keep control of every step. Repeated runs compile into skills that replay without a model.