FAQ

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Why Web Bot Auth? Not OAuth?

Oauth introduces complexity in implementation. There's an open issue on Thibault's Githubarrow-up-right discussing this. There another cloudflare project, OpenPubkeyarrow-up-right 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.

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