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Add "Detect AI agents in login flows" guide - #6370

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Resolves wso2/product-is#28639

Documents the new built-in AI Agents conditional authentication templates (wso2/carbon-identity-framework#8366) in a new guide, Detect AI agents in login flows:

  • Templates: the two templates in the AI Agents category. AI Agent Blocking denies sign-in. AI Agent Human-in-the-Loop runs the first login step and then requires a human-only verification step.
  • Applying a template: how to add one from the Console.
  • How it works: how the default detectAgent() identifies agents through Web Bot Auth.
  • Choosing a human-only step 2: push notification and passkey are recommended; TOTP and email/SMS OTP are not.
  • Other identification methods to add to detectAgent(): Web Bot Auth with edge verification and a trusted header, user agent markers, and agent provider IP ranges.

Adds the page to the nav and to the conditional authentication index for IS next and Asgardeo.

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  • Built the IS next site locally with mkdocs serve and checked that the page and nav render. Checked that the linked passkey, push and IP-Based template guides exist for next and Asgardeo.

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Document the AI Agent Blocking and AI Agent Human-in-the-Loop conditional
authentication templates and the methods for identifying AI agents inside
detectAgent(). Add the page to the 7.3.0, next and Asgardeo navs and to the
conditional authentication template lists.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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The pull request adds a shared guide for detecting AI agents during sign-in. It documents blocking and human-in-the-loop templates, detection signals, setup, and limitations. Asgardeo and Identity Server pages link to the guide and list the template in their navigation.

Changes: AI-agent detection documentation

Layer / File(s) Summary
Detection templates and default flow
en/includes/guides/authentication/conditional-auth/detect-ai-agents.md
Describes the blocking and human-in-the-loop templates, setup, default detection behavior, and human-verification requirements.
Detection signals and limitations
en/includes/guides/authentication/conditional-auth/detect-ai-agents.md
Documents Web Bot Auth, optional user-agent and provider-IP checks, edge verification, and limitations of request signals.
Product pages, listings, and navigation
en/asgardeo/docs/guides/authentication/conditional-auth/*, en/asgardeo/mkdocs.yml, en/identity-server/next/docs/guides/authentication/conditional-auth/*, en/identity-server/next/mkdocs.yml
Adds product-specific pages that include the shared guide. Adds the AI Agents category, template listing, and navigation entry for each product.

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Merge Risk: Minimal · previous review 31a12

The documented AI-agent detection guidance is ready to merge, with the earlier Asgardeo compatibility issue resolved.

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Title check Passed The title clearly and concisely identifies the main change: adding a guide for detecting AI agents in login flows.
Linked Issues check Passed Issue #28639 is closed and completed. It supplies background only. No active directly linked target remains, so no linked-issue coding requirements apply. The PR documents the AI Agents templates. Its…
Out of Scope Changes check Passed The supplied summary lists five changed files. Four are documentation changes: the new detect-ai-agents.md page for Asgardeo and IS next, the conditional-auth index.md for both products, and the two m…
Description check Passed The PR adds an AI agent detection guide for conditional authentication, with navigation and index updates for IS next and Asgardeo. The description gives a clear purpose and links the related issue (w…
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Issue #28639 is closed and completed. It supplies background only. No active directly linked target remains, so no linked-issue coding requirements apply. The PR documents the AI Agents templates. Its acceptance criteria are not evaluated as PR objectives. Its pages are documentation only. The change does not need automated tests for this issue. The supplied diff could not be read, so the file set rests on the PR summary and the PR description. The shared include file en/includes/guides/authentication/conditional-auth/detect-ai-agents.md exists at the reviewed head.

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The supplied summary lists five changed files. Four are documentation changes: the new detect-ai-agents.md page for Asgardeo and IS next, the conditional-auth index.md for both products, and the two mkdocs.yml navigation entries. The fifth is the shared include file, detect-ai-agents.md. All of them support the stated PR purpose: a guide for the AI Agents templates, its navigation, and its index entry. No unrelated change is shown. Limitation: the whole-PR text diff was unavailable (changed blobs missing from the checkout). The file set and line content are therefore taken from the AI-generated summary, not from a diff read.

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The PR adds an AI agent detection guide for conditional authentication, with navigation and index updates for IS next and Asgardeo. The description gives a clear purpose and links the related issue (wso2/product-is#28639) and related PR (wso2/carbon-identity-framework#8366). It lists the templates, the Web Bot Auth detection method, and the human-only verification guidance. The test environment section describes a local mkdocs build and link checks. The Security checks section has the third item checked, but the first two items are unchecked and no reason is given. All required template sections are present and substantively filled, so the description is mostly complete.

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🟡 Minor · Avoid a for loop in this example. · detect-ai-agents.md:155-156

en/includes/guides/authentication/conditional-auth/detect-ai-agents.md:155-156
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Avoid a for loop in this example.

Asgardeo adaptive scripts do not support loops. This snippet therefore cannot run as written when copied into Asgardeo. Replace the loop with a regular expression or explicit indexOf checks. (wso2.com)

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-var agentUserAgents = ['HeadlessChrome', 'ChatGPT', 'Claude', 'Google-Agent', 'Perplexity', 'Playwright', 'Puppeteer', 'Selenium'];
+var agentUserAgentPattern = /HeadlessChrome|ChatGPT|Claude|Google-Agent|Perplexity|Playwright|Puppeteer|Selenium/;

 var userAgent = String(context.request.headers['user-agent'] || '');
-for (var i = 0; i < agentUserAgents.length; i++) {
-    if (userAgent.indexOf(agentUserAgents[i]) >= 0) {
-        return true;
-    }
-}
+return agentUserAgentPattern.test(userAgent);
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Keep the guide for IS next and Asgardeo only. Drop the 7.3.0 page and its
nav and conditional authentication index entries.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
shashimalcse and others added 2 commits November 3, 2026 12:18
Asgardeo adaptive scripts don't support loops, so the user agent example
failed when copied into Asgardeo. Test the markers with one regular
expression and keep the early return so the other detectAgent() checks
still run.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Asgardeo doesn't allow two consecutive periods in authentication scripts,
and the "sig1=(...)" example in the comment had three. Use a real
Signature-Input value instead.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
shashimalcse and others added 2 commits November 3, 2026 13:24
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The snippets already use lower-case header names, and the default
detectAgent() code carries the same comment.

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