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title: "Verified bot: plain-language definition | Am I Ready for Agents?"
description: "Verified bot: A bot whose operator has proven its identity to your CDN or bot vendor, through signatures, published IP ranges or a directory. Dated and sourced."
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# Verified bot: plain-language definition | Am I Ready for Agents?

> Verified bot: A bot whose operator has proven its identity to your CDN or bot vendor, through signatures, published IP ranges or a directory. Dated and sourced.

Source: https://amireadyforagents.com/glossary/verified-bot
Site: Am I Ready for Agents?
Last reviewed: 2026-11-04

# Verified bot

## In short

A verified bot is the group you can welcome by name without opening the door to every script. Read on in How to tell verified agents from unknown bots. Compare it with Web Bot Auth and Bot management. Cloudflare reported more than 500 billion verified bot requests each week (30 Sep 2026).

## Definition

A bot whose operator has proven its identity to your CDN or bot vendor, through signatures, published IP ranges or a directory.

## A dated example

-   Read 4 Nov 2026
    
    Cloudflare reported more than 500 billion verified bot requests each week (30 Sep 2026).
    
    [Cloudflare: The Internet has a second audience (30 Sep 2026)](https://blog.cloudflare.com/agentic-web/), read 4 Nov 2026
    

## Where it matters

It is the group you can welcome by name without opening the door to every script.

-   [How to tell verified agents from unknown bots](https://amireadyforagents.com/decisions/verifying-agents)

## Related terms

-   [Web Bot Auth](https://amireadyforagents.com/glossary/web-bot-auth)A proposed standard in which an agent signs its requests so a site can check who operates it, rather than trusting the name it claims.
-   [Bot management](https://amireadyforagents.com/glossary/bot-management)Tools at your CDN, host or firewall that identify automated visitors and allow, challenge or block them.

## Sources

1.  [Cloudflare: The Internet has a second audience (30 Sep 2026)](https://blog.cloudflare.com/agentic-web/) (blog.cloudflare.com/agentic-web), read 4 Nov 2026.

Last reviewed 4 November 2026

Reviewed 4 November 2026. [1 source](#sources), each with the day it was read.