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Main goal is to let in everyone's agents (OpenClaw, Hermes...) without human intervention, while keeping out deterministic scripts farming API keys.

If a few tool-wielding humans slip through, that's fine (traditional CAPTCHAs also let in our stealth agents)

Why does it matter whether the API key farming script is deterministic?

By "deterministic" I mean "non-LLM". An LLM can still farm keys, but at a per-attempt inference cost

I think they're counting on an ego hit - "you're just a tool" - although it might be negated by the human satisfaction of figuring things out.

I think the bigger problem is that humans are capable of agent use, so the premise "keep humans but not agents out" seems nonsensical.