LunaCare signed agent

An automated agent operated by LunaCare. This page describes what it is, so that anyone who sees agent.thelunacare.com in their logs can find out.

What it does

It reads individual web pages that LunaCare's own staff and software assistants ask for, one page at a time, while carrying out ordinary work — checking a supplier's page, reading a listing, looking up a public fact. It is not a crawler and it does not build a dataset.

How it identifies itself

Every request it sends carries a cryptographic Web Bot Auth signature, so a site can confirm the request really comes from this operator rather than take a header's word for it. It does not disguise itself as a browser.

• Signature agent: https://agent.thelunacare.com
• Key directory: https://agent.thelunacare.com/.well-known/http-message-signatures-directory
• Key id: LTzz5XeGx3L19zJ4Q8I3Fk0eY-C9hrvsVf0rjts_Vn8
• User agent: LunaCareAgent/1.0 (+https://agent.thelunacare.com/)

What it does not do

• It does not crawl: it fetches only the exact URL it was given, and follows no links.
• It does not collect pages in bulk, mirror sites, or gather training data.
• It holds no login and no session, so it sees only what any visitor without an account sees.
• It does not attempt to defeat a challenge, a consent wall or a refusal. If a site declines, the refusal is the answer it returns, and it does not retry its way around it.
• It honours robots.txt rules addressed to it by name. A group naming LunaCareAgent stops it, on that path or on the whole site, without anyone having to write to us. It does not treat a blanket User-agent: * rule as a refusal, because that rule governs crawling and this fetches one page a person asked for and follows no links — which is also why it is registered with Cloudflare as an assistant rather than a crawler.
• Only LunaCare can send requests that present as this agent. No third party operates it.

If you would rather it did not visit

Say so and it will stop: info@thelunacare.com. Blocking the signature above is also a perfectly good answer, and it is why the signature is there.