How to Automate 2FA and Account Creation for AI Agents

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TLDR: Creating accounts and passing 2FA is a major roadblock for AI agents, requiring manual intervention. We're launching Notte Agent Identities, a new feature that gives your AI agents complete, persistent digital identities. Each identity comes with a dedicated email, a real phone number for SMS verification, and a secure credential vault to manage its own website credentials. This allows your agents to autonomously handle the entire authentication process — from filling out a sign-up form to passing 2FA, without any human help.

Scrape Past the Login Screen

The most valuable data isn't public — it's behind a login. Traditional scrapers hit this wall and stop. Notte agent identities unlocks the authenticated web, transforming your scraper from a simple bot into an autonomous agent that can:

Create Its Own Accounts: your agent signs up for any service, handling both email and SMS verification automatically. No manual work required.

Conquer 2FA Instantly: the dreaded SMS code or Email Sign Link is no longer an automation-killer. Your agent gets these programmatically and logs in automatically.

Scrape Like a Real User: they provide persistent, credible identities that don't get blocked like disposable services do, allowing for long-term, stable scraping sessions.

By making account creation and authentication a reproducible step in your code, this removes the primary manual bottleneck to scaling. It allows you to reliably deploy and manage numerous authenticated agents for parallel data collection and complex automation workflow.

How it works

Notte agent identities are not a standalone feature; they are deeply integrated with our core Agent and Session components. During an active session, a Notte Agent uses built-in tool calling to seamlessly request credentials, verification links, or 2FA codes from its assigned identity.

Technical Integration: Using identities in Your Code

Integrating Identities into your Notte agents is straightforward. Here's a practical example of how to use a agent identity to automate account creation:

What happens under the hood:

When the agent encounters a signup form, it automatically uses the identity’s email and phone number.
If email verification is required, the agent programmatically retrieves the verification link from its inbox.
For SMS 2FA, the agent fetches the code from the its own phone number.
Credentials are automatically stored in the the secure vault for future sessions

Practical Applications: What to Build with Notte Identities

The ability to programmatically create and manage authenticated identities opens up a wide range of automation possibilities that were previously complex or required significant manual work. Here are some key use cases where this capability is a game-changer:

E-commerce: Programmatically register for shopping sites and marketplaces. This enables automated workflows for price tracking, order placement, or managing multiple accounts on platforms where authenticated access is required.
Social Media: Reliably set up profiles across social networks. With the ability to handle SMS verification, identities overcome the primary technical barrier to creating accounts for data collection, research, or social listening tasks.
Financial Services: Automate the initial stages of account opening and KYC processes. Use identities to programmatically validate email and phone number verification steps, ensuring your user onboarding flows are functioning correctly.
QA Testing: Generate clean test accounts on demand for quality assurance. Instead of relying on a static pool of users, your test scripts can create a new identity for each run, guaranteeing a consistent, uncompromised starting state for testing registration and user features.
SaaS Signups: Automatically create and verify accounts on any software platform. Use this for competitive analysis, testing integrations, or populating a new environment with users without manual data entry.