# Bot check

A check in front of a page or a form that decides whether the visitor is a person: a puzzle, a checkbox or a silent score. Each site chooses where it shows and which bots it lets through.

Also called CAPTCHA, bot management, bot wall.

Source: https://agentdrives.com/glossary/bot-check · as data: https://agentdrives.com/glossary/bot-check.json · licence CC BY 4.0

## In our drives

When a check stops our agent, the drive records the vendor, where it showed and what kind of check it was.

The vendors behind the bot checks: https://agentdrives.com/vendors

## Products where a bot check kept our agent out

84 of the 151 products we drove.

- [ActiveCampaign](https://agentdrives.com/tools/activecampaign.md?via=md): L1 Needs a person
- [Acuity Scheduling](https://agentdrives.com/tools/acuityscheduling.md?via=md): L1 Needs a person
- [Akiflow](https://agentdrives.com/tools/akiflow.md?via=md): L1 Needs a person
- [Amplitude](https://agentdrives.com/tools/amplitude.md?via=md): L1 Needs a person
- [Apify](https://agentdrives.com/tools/apify.md?via=md): L1 Needs a person
- [Asana](https://agentdrives.com/tools/asana.md?via=md): L1 Needs a person
- [Backblaze B2](https://agentdrives.com/tools/backblaze.md?via=md): L1 Needs a person
- [Basecamp](https://agentdrives.com/tools/basecamp.md?via=md): L1 Needs a person

## Related terms

- [Wall](https://agentdrives.com/glossary/wall.md): Anything that stops an AI agent at a product's door: a bot check, a phone number at sign-up, a card before first use, a sign-up that only works in a browser.
- [Signed agents](https://agentdrives.com/glossary/signed-agents.md): AI agents that sign each request with a key the site can check, so the site knows who sent it. A site can let signed agents through a bot check that stops everyone else.
- [Web Bot Auth](https://agentdrives.com/glossary/web-bot-auth.md): The draft standard that signed agents use: each request carries a signature, and the agent publishes its keys in a directory at a fixed address so a site can check them.
- [Needs a human](https://agentdrives.com/glossary/needs-a-human.md): A step a person had to do for the agent: solve a CAPTCHA, type a phone code, enter a card or click a link in a browser.

Every term: https://agentdrives.com/glossary.md