Declared agent: an AI agent that says it’s an AI, and who it works for
More customers now send an AI agent to sign up, ask a question or book. A declared one tells the company it meets what it is and who sent it.
A declared agent is an AI agent that says it’s an AI, and which company it acts for, whenever it talks to a person or acts on a site, instead of passing as a human. A company that meets one knows a machine is in the conversation, who is answerable for it, and where to write about it.
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What makes an agent declared
An AI agent is software that acts on its own: it fills in forms, reads emails, chats with support or makes a call. It is declared when it is open about two things wherever it meets people: that it is an AI, and which company it acts for. In a chat it says so in its first message. By phone it says so when the call connects. On a site, the signal can travel with every request.
Saying it’s an AI is one half. The other is a company that answers for it: a name, a page that explains what the agent does and never does, and an address where anyone it met can ask what happened or ask it to stay away.
Why declaring an agent matters to the companies it meets
A support team that knows it is answering an AI can route the chat. A fraud or security team can tell a declared agent from a script that hides. A company with questions has someone to ask, instead of a stranger it can only block. Some places already require a business’s own bots to say they are bots, as the guide to chatbot disclosure laws explains.
How a site can tell a declared agent
In words, the agent says what it is when it talks to a person. In its traffic, Web Bot Auth lets an agent sign each request so a site can check which company’s agent is visiting. Neither is a login: a declared agent still uses the pages and forms any customer can, and a site still decides what to show it.
Where Obsession’s agents fit
Obsession collects what companies show only to customers, step by step: their screens, emails and texts, member prices, trial limits, quotes and cancel offers, each dated with a screenshot. Teams and AI agents look up any company through the API or MCP, and a company not yet covered is added on request. Every Obsession agent is a declared AI agent: it says it’s an AI agent from Obsession when it talks to a person, links to the page that explains it, never gets round a CAPTCHA or a bot block, and keeps every receipt as it arrived. Who asked for the visit stays private unless they choose to be named.
Not quite. A declared agent says what it is and who it works for. A verified bot is one a site or a network has checked, for example by a signature. An agent can be both.
Treat it as any customer, or ask the company behind it what it did. A declared agent names who answers for it.
Saw an Obsession agent?It uses the pages and forms any customer can use. A company can still ask the company behind it to keep its agents off its site, and Obsession stops when asked.