What's new in Proof of Actor.
Product updates and improvements, newest first. Founding teams get every release as it ships.
- Docs
Comparison pages, short answers and Markdown exports
Clearer answers for people and for AI assistants researching actor intelligence.
- New comparisons: Proof of Actor vs bot management, and vs CAPTCHA.
- Every guide and topic page now opens with a short answer.
- Glossary terms, guides, topic pages and blog posts are available as Markdown, plus a full-text llms-full.txt.
- New
Proof of Actor private beta and the founding developer program
Applications open for founding developer teams, with up to 12 months of free access for selected teams.
- New website and product overview for Proof of Actor.
- Learn hub with 16 glossary terms and 6 implementation guides.
- Early-access application for teams operating SaaS apps, websites, APIs and MCP servers.
- New
Policy preview
See what a policy would decide on real traffic before you enforce it.
- Policies per route, actor class and evidence basis: allow, adapt, challenge, review or rate-limit.
- Preview the effect of a policy against observed traffic before enforcing it.
- Explicit fallbacks for Unknown results and timeouts.
- New
MCP server integration
Actor context for the clients calling your MCP tools.
- Classify MCP tool calls as Human, Human + AI, Agent or Unknown.
- Tool-level policies by impact, kept separate from the credential that authorizes the call.
- New
Verified agent requests
Request signatures checked against published keys produce a verified basis.
- HTTP Message Signatures (RFC 9421) verification for automated clients.
- Verified results carry the signer's published identifier.
- User-agent claims without a signature are reported as declared, never verified.
- Improved
Actor analytics by route
Understand where each kind of actor uses your application.
- Actor mix by route, workflow and time period.
- The evidence behind every classification, one click away.
- Unknown rate per route, so coverage gaps are visible.
- New
Edge, browser and HTTP API integrations
Collect signals wherever your application runs.
- Edge integration for requests handled at the network edge.
- Browser signals collector for approved pages.
- Generic HTTP API for any stack.
- New
Observation mode, Node.js and Next.js
The first integrations, built to change nothing until you are ready.
- Server middleware for Node.js and Next.js.
- Observation mode by default: every interaction classified and recorded, no behavior changed.
- Four actor classes with an explicit evidence basis: verified, declared, inferred or unknown.
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