Overview
Deck Agent is an AI agent from Deck used for assistant-driven browsing, page retrieval, and automated web access on behalf of an AI product.
Its primary user-agent pattern is DeckAgent; related patterns include DeckAgent; DeckAI.
Deck Agent is Unverified at the identity-evidence level. The listed identity remains useful for detection, but this record does not currently contain authoritative evidence sufficient to authenticate the identity claim.
Robots.txt behavior is not currently confirmed.
Deck Agent should be handled according to the site owner’s AI crawler policy, with allow, block, or rate-limit rules applied deliberately.
Identity
- User-Agent
DeckAgent- Aliases
- DeckAgent; DeckAI
- HTTP Agent Examples
DeckAgent- Robots.txt Token
DeckAgent- Identity Type
- Observed
- Evidence Method
- Treat `DeckAgent` as an identity signal only. Confirm it with current operator documentation, cryptographic verification, forward-confirmed reverse DNS, source-network ownership, or other authoritative evidence before trusting the claimed identity.
Classification
- Type
- AI Assistant
- Kind
- AI Assistant
- Family
- Deck
- Purpose
- ai-agent-task-fetching
Behavior and handling
- Common Use
- Deck Agent is used for assistant-driven browsing, page retrieval, and automated web access on behalf of an AI product.
- Detection Notes
- Deck Agent traffic is primarily detected by the `DeckAgent` user-agent pattern; related patterns include `DeckAgent; DeckAI`. Compare source IPs, reverse DNS, request paths, and crawl cadence with Deck infrastructure before trusting the traffic.
- Respects robots.txt
- Unknown
- Spoofing Risk
- Deck Agent has medium spoofing risk because user-agent strings can be copied; pair the match with DNS, IP, behavior, or operator evidence.
- Risk
- Neutral
- Recommended Handling
- Depends
Rules and controls
- Robots.txt Snippet
# robots.txt behavior is unconfirmed. Do not rely on this rule without verification.