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Show HN: Web Bot Auth SDK and SSH Utilty

A developer released a beta version of a Web Bot Auth SDK, live at messh.io, aimed at authenticating agentic traffic and inspired by the IETF Web Bot Auth working group's documents. The same tool includes an SSH utility that automatically looks up a named user's public key and adds it to a server via a command such as "messh add amul," removing the need to copy-paste keys manually. The release is described as beta and buggy, and the Hacker News post had 1 point and 0 comments at the time of the source.

read1 min views1 publishedOct 24, 2026

Launched a beta/buggy version of the SDK for web bot auth, and it's live at https://messh.io Inspired by https://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/webbotauth/documents/

While solving this, I realized it solves the hassle of adding SSH keys, the overhead of copy-pasting n number of times to a remote server; just do messh add amul

It will automatically search for Amul's public key and add it to my server

Do try if you find it interesting. But the main product aim is to solve web bot auth for agentic traffic

Comments URL: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50218119](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50218119)

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