About this bot
HarkBot is a signed intermediary agent associated with Hark.
Representative HTTP identity: HarkBot/1.0. The robots product token is HarkBot.
Hark publishes cryptographic key material for HTTP Message Signature verification, allowing stronger attribution than User-Agent matching alone.
Directory status: Active. Identity classification: Verified with High confidence.
How to identify this bot
- User-agent and crawler identifiers
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HarkBotHarkBot/1.0 - Also known as
- HarkBot/1.0; Hark Bot Hark Bot
Details
- Kind
- Agent
- Family
- Hark
- Purpose
- User-triggered personal intelligence access
- Common Use
- Intermediary agent access performed on behalf of Hark users/personal-intelligence workflows.
- Respects robots.txt
- Unknown
Verification
- Identity Type
- Signed agent
- Evidence Method
- Match `HarkBot/1.0` and validate the HTTP Message Signature against Hark’s operator-controlled key directory for authenticated attribution.
- Detection Notes
- HarkBot supports cryptographic request verification; prefer signature validation over trusting the User-Agent alone.
Website controls
- Robots.txt Snippet
# robots.txt behavior is unconfirmed. Use server-side controls if restriction is required.