Meridian-Research/1.0 Meridian is an automated research agent operated by Validacy. It reads public government pages about occupational licensing and credentials, identifies itself with the User-Agent "Meridian-Research/1.0", signs its requests (Web Bot Auth), honours robots.txt (token: meridian-research), and makes at most one request per two seconds to any host. It does not solve CAPTCHAs or log in.