Unveiling Good and Bad Behaviors on the Agentic Internet
Cloudflare, Friday, August 7th, 2026
Cloudflare shifts bot mitigation from point-in-time risk scoring to continuous trust evaluation with BotBase and Precursor.
Cloudflare is moving bot mitigation from point-in-time risk assessment toward continuous trust evaluation.
The post explains how new good and bad behaviors from bots and agents are assessed by systems including BotBase and Precursor.
Continuous evaluation matters because an agent that behaves acceptably at first may not continue to. Cloudflare also offers a Precursor Trace simulation so operators can see how their own traffic would be assessed.