FAQ

To add questions in this section, please open a Github Issue.

Why Web Bot Auth? Not OAuth?

Oauth introduces complexity in implementation. There's an open issue on Thibault's Github discussing this. There another cloudflare project, OpenPubkey which works with OIDC and they use an MPC. OpenBotAuth intends to avoid any complex cryptography.

Why Can't I Sign-in with Facebook/X?

Agents live and die in developer's terminal. Almost all developers have a Github Account and understand the value of hosted services. Developers remain the primary agent builders. Hence it was a no brainer to allow Github Profiles to verify first. We will consider expanding to other verification methods.