How to Automate 2FA and Account Creation for AI Agents

Source: Dev.to

TL;DR

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 unlock 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 lets you reliably deploy and manage numerous authenticated agents for parallel data collection and complex automation workflows.

How it works

Technical Integration: Using Identities in Your Code

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 its own phone number.
• Credentials are automatically stored in 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. Key use cases include:

• E‑commerce – programmatically register for shopping sites and marketplaces, enabling automated price tracking, order placement, or multi‑account management.
• Social Media – reliably set up profiles across networks; SMS verification is no longer a barrier for data collection, research, or social listening.
• Financial Services – automate initial stages of account opening and KYC processes, validating email and phone verification steps.
• QA Testing – generate clean test accounts on demand, guaranteeing a consistent, uncompromised starting state for registration and user‑feature tests.
• SaaS Sign‑ups – automatically create and verify accounts on any software platform for competitive analysis, integration testing, or bulk user provisioning.

Ready to Build?

The next step is to try it yourself. Create your first agent identity on the Notte console and start automating account creation in minutes.