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title: "Signed-Agent-Metadata header proposed | Agent Ready Crawlers"
description: "Signed-Agent-Metadata header proposed for Web Bot Auth. A new draft would carry signed metadata about an agent beside its signature. Dated 2026-11-02."
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# Signed-Agent-Metadata header proposed | Agent Ready Crawlers

> Signed-Agent-Metadata header proposed for Web Bot Auth. A new draft would carry signed metadata about an agent beside its signature. Dated 2026-11-02.

Source: https://agentreadycrawlers.com/news/2026-11-02-signed-agent-metadata-header-proposed-for-web-bot-auth
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Last reviewed: 2026-11-04

News from 2026-11-02

# Signed-Agent-Metadata header proposed for Web Bot Auth

In short

2 November 2026: Signed-Agent-Metadata header proposed for Web Bot Auth. draft-vilgalys-webbotauth-signed-agent-metadata-00 proposes an HTTP header that carries signed metadata about the agent alongside a Web Bot Auth signature. For a site owner nothing changes yet: a proposed header is not something any operator sends today, so no rule needs to change.

draft-vilgalys-webbotauth-signed-agent-metadata-00 proposes an HTTP header that carries signed metadata about the agent alongside a Web Bot Auth signature.

Primary source [datatracker.ietf.org/wg/webbotauth/documents/](https://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/webbotauth/documents/), read 2026-11-04.

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## Sources

-   [IETF webbotauth working group documents](https://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/webbotauth/documents/) read 2026-11-04

Last reviewed 2026-11-04