Instinct

By Spear Street Technology.

What works today

Nothing verified yet. Instinct is invite only, and we haven't run a test.

As of 2026-10-31.

Instinct has no chat assistant whose links we test. People reach the agent by text message.

Personal agent: Instinct

A personal agent people reach by text message or phone call. It runs on its own cloud computer with a browser and keeps working between messages. Launched Invite only (source).

It browses your site in a browser of its own, so its visits run your pages and your analytics tag like a person's. See Detect personal agent traffic for how to label and report them.

Signal
Instinct

Names itself

A name in the user agent. Easy to read, but anyone can copy it.

Reported: missing

  • Instinct: Reported ยท Reported. Reported not to identify itself by name when browsing. Source Data

Signs its requests

A Web Bot Auth signature a site can verify.

Untested

Tags its visits

A utm_source on the first page, so the visit has a source.

Untested

How to recognize it today

Not documented. Reports say it browses in a leased cloud browser and doesn't name itself to websites.

Last verified: not yet verified first-hand.

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