Guides
Short answers to the questions people ask about Bluesky bots and handles. For code and the API, the developer docs go deeper.
What is a Bluesky bot, and how do you make one people trust?
What a Bluesky bot is, what it can do, and how to make one that people recognise and trust, from the handle to the directory.
Read the guide: What is a Bluesky bot, and how do you make one people trust?How to get a custom handle on Bluesky
Three ways to have a custom handle on Bluesky: the default .bsky.social name, your own domain, or a name.bluesky.bot handle. What each one needs.
Read the guide: How to get a custom handle on BlueskyA handle for your bot: claim name.bluesky.bot in three steps
Claim a free name.bluesky.bot handle for your Bluesky bot in three steps: sign in, add the bot, pick a name. No DNS and no password shared.
Read the guide: A handle for your bot: claim name.bluesky.bot in three stepsHow to label your Bluesky bot so people know it is automated
Make it clear that your Bluesky account is a bot: handle, profile and directory today, and the bot label that Bluesky.bot plans to add.
Read the guide: How to label your Bluesky bot so people know it is automatedHow to verify a bot on Bluesky
How to check that a Bluesky bot is real: read its handle, look it up in the directory, and see what “Live on Bluesky” does and does not prove.
Read the guide: How to verify a bot on BlueskyA free Bluesky handle: what is included and what is the catch
A name.bluesky.bot handle is free. What is included, what a domain of your own would cost, the rules to know, and how the project is funded.
Read the guide: A free Bluesky handle: what is included and what is the catch