The Bramwell Browser Agent

If you're reading this, you probably found Bramwell-Agent in your server logs, or followed the contact link inside that User-Agent string. This page explains what made the request, on whose behalf, and how to reach us — including how to have your domain blocked for every Bramwell user.

What Bramwell is

Bramwell is personal-assistant software for Home Assistant, made by Bramwell Technologies LLC. It installs on a customer's own computer, in their home. Its browser agent drives a real browser on that machine when the customer asks for help with a task — working through a setup screen, checking a page, or running an errand they requested.

Each installation serves one household. There is no fleet, no crawler, and no central index: requests originate from the individual user's own internet connection, and what the agent reads is used only to complete that user's request.

What the agent is not:

• It is not a search-engine crawler and does not index or archive the web.
• It does not collect content for AI training.
• It does not act on its own initiative — it acts only at its user's direction, either live or on a schedule that user configured.

How it identifies itself

Bramwell identifies itself with two User-Agent strings. Browser sessions:

Lightweight automated fetches (RSS feeds, structured-data lookups, geocoding):

Traffic carrying either string came from a Bramwell user's own installation, acting for that user.

How it behaves

• Automated fetches check robots.txt first. Scheduled, non-interactive fetches retrieve the site's robots.txt before requesting a page and honor Disallow rules addressed to their user-agent token or to *.
• They are rate-limited. At most one request per second per host, a 15-second timeout, and a small fixed cap on items read per check.
• Live sessions are human-scale. An interactive session is a single real browser, driven for a single household's request — not parallel crawling.
• Domains that ask to be left alone are left alone. The agent enforces a blocklist before navigation ever happens; blocked domains are refused for every user (see below).

Contact, opt-out, and blocking

If something on this page doesn't match what you see in your logs, tell us — the same two channels reach the people who build this.