Agent Ready Crawlers

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Glossary

Mastercard Agent Pay

In short

Mastercard's programme for registered agents to transact, which signs agent traffic with Web Bot Auth so merchants and CDNs can verify it. The Verification Ledger found no public operator-level registry of agents registered with it either. Example: Cloudflare says Agent Pay and TAP tag requests agent-payer-auth or agent-browser-auth. Related: Let TAP and Agent Pay through and Cloudflare profile.

Definition

Mastercard's programme for registered agents to transact, which signs agent traffic with Web Bot Auth so merchants and CDNs can verify it.

Sourced example

Cloudflare says Agent Pay and TAP tag requests agent-payer-auth or agent-browser-auth. Source, read 2026-11-04.

How it shows up here

The Verification Ledger found no public operator-level registry of agents registered with it either.

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Sources

Last reviewed 2026-11-04