Temporary Cloudflare Accounts for AI Agents

Re:Temporary Cloudflare Accounts for AI Agents by simonw on Saturday June 20, 2026 @12:28PM (#48610512)

I just tried this out:

  % npx wrangler deploy --temporary
  
    wrangler 4.103.0
  ────────────────────
   You must accept Cloudflare's Terms of Service (https://www.cloudflare.com/terms/) and Privacy Policy (https://www.cloudflare.com/privacypolicy/) in order to continue. By typing "yes", you agree to these terms. Type "yes" to continue. … yes
  Solving proof-of-work challenge…
  Temporary account ready:
   Account: Educated Celery (created)
   Claim within: 60 minutes
   Claim URL: https://dash.cloudflare.com/claim-preview?claimToken=CAVe7LzWiGad-redacted
  Total Upload: 13.79 KiB / gzip: 4.12 KiB
  Uploaded cloudflare-redirect-resolver (2.27 sec)
  Deployed cloudflare-redirect-resolver triggers (0.50 sec)
    https://cloudflare-redirect-resolver.educated-celery.workers.dev
  Current Version ID: 5c12da7f-2749-4ccc-a8f6-79b85da98d10

I'm amused that it made me accept the terms and conditions without any indication of who I am, but it did work - https://cloudflare-redirect-resolver.educated-celery.workers... will be live for the next 59 minutes.

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Re:Temporary Cloudflare Accounts for AI Agents by bstsb on Saturday June 20, 2026 @12:53PM (#48610750)

> I'm amused that it made me accept the terms and conditions without any indication of who I am

as far as i’m aware, that’s fully binding and often an accepted practise - take Minecraft’s server software, where you must accept the EULA with a text flag before running

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Re:Temporary Cloudflare Accounts for AI Agents by nextaccountic on Saturday June 20, 2026 @04:07PM (#48612534)

but if an agent automatically accepts an EULA for you, is it binding?

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Re:Temporary Cloudflare Accounts for AI Agents by halJordan on Saturday June 20, 2026 @04:34PM (#48612757)

It would have to be. And it's not new in the law at all. The principal-agent problem was one of the main enablers of the golden age of piracy. But that doesn't mean it isnt a solved problem now (in the law and practically)

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Re:Temporary Cloudflare Accounts for AI Agents by nextaccountic on Saturday June 20, 2026 @11:20PM (#48615364)

> principal-agent problem

Here the agent is not a person. It's unclear this principle holds legally

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Re:Temporary Cloudflare Accounts for AI Agents by sandeepkd on Saturday June 20, 2026 @11:44PM (#48615482)

This is a binding from service perspective. The agent use case is being highlighted in this example, however in practice the server does not knows what/who the client is. In fact with API's (user not present in loop) just notifying is good enough based on what I have been told by company legal teams in the past.

Ideally the agent is supposed to be responsible to surface its own TOS and the downstream TOS to the user. In other words most likely the agent is on the hook if this goes to court

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Re:Temporary Cloudflare Accounts for AI Agents by inigyou on Sunday June 21, 2026 @09:55AM (#48619030)

This has never been tried in court, though, at best it probably just protects mojang from liability for banning your server from the IP address entry box (that's a real thing they do) if you don't obey

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Re:Temporary Cloudflare Accounts for AI Agents by avipars on Saturday June 20, 2026 @12:48PM (#48610697)

You might want to claim the link or remove it

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Re:Temporary Cloudflare Accounts for AI Agents by simonw on Saturday June 20, 2026 @01:24PM (#48611060)

I redacted it, but if anyone still has at and wants to steal my demo app they're welcome to it.

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Re:Temporary Cloudflare Accounts for AI Agents by xyzzy_plugh on Saturday June 20, 2026 @12:55PM (#48610762)

Why?

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Re:Temporary Cloudflare Accounts for AI Agents by throw1234567891 on Saturday June 20, 2026 @01:40PM (#48611211)

Why not

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Re:Temporary Cloudflare Accounts for AI Agents by winterqt on Saturday June 20, 2026 @08:00PM (#48614313)

Interesting, it’s still live!

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Re:Temporary Cloudflare Accounts for AI Agents by usef- on Saturday June 20, 2026 @08:22PM (#48614437)

Maybe someone else claimed it?

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Re:Temporary Cloudflare Accounts for AI Agents by johanyc on Sunday June 21, 2026 @01:25PM (#48620747)

Still live lol

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Re:Temporary Cloudflare Accounts for AI Agents by deanputney on Monday June 22, 2026 @02:25PM (#48633957)

Yeah, it's still up at this time. That's surprising that it's not being auto cleaned up.

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Re:Temporary Cloudflare Accounts for AI Agents by WolfCop on Saturday June 20, 2026 @08:26PM (#48614458)

Why a GET and cancel after headers instead of a HEAD?

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Re:Temporary Cloudflare Accounts for AI Agents by simonw on Saturday June 20, 2026 @08:36PM (#48614509)

I don't trust everyone online to correctly implement HEAD requests. I'm quite possibly being overly paranoid.

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Re:Temporary Cloudflare Accounts for AI Agents by LoganDark on Sunday June 21, 2026 @03:57AM (#48616665)

By making it require interactive input to accept TOS they've made most agents unable to use it, but the effort is cool!

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