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# Weight Threshold Configuration
Anubis offers the ability to assign "weight" to requests. This is a custom level of suspicion that rules can add to or remove from. For example, here's how you assign 10 weight points to anything that might be a browser:
```yaml
# botPolicies.yaml
bots:
- name: generic-browser
user_agent_regex: >-
Mozilla|Opera
action: WEIGH
weight:
adjust: 10
```
Thresholds let you take this per-request weight value and take actions in response to it. Thresholds are defined alongside your bot configuration in `botPolicies.yaml`.
:::note
Thresholds DO NOT apply when a request matches a bot rule with the CHALLENGE action. Thresholds only apply when requests don't match any terminal bot rules.
:::
```yaml
# botPolicies.yaml
bots: ...
thresholds:
- name: minimal-suspicion
expression: weight < 0
action: ALLOW
- name: mild-suspicion
expression:
all:
- weight >= 0
- weight < 10
action: CHALLENGE
challenge:
algorithm: metarefresh
difficulty: 1
- name: moderate-suspicion
expression:
all:
- weight >= 10
- weight < 20
action: CHALLENGE
challenge:
algorithm: fast
difficulty: 2
- name: extreme-suspicion
expression: weight >= 20
action: CHALLENGE
challenge:
algorithm: fast
difficulty: 4
```
This defines a suite of 4 thresholds:
1. If the request weight is less than zero, allow it through.
2. If the request weight is greater than or equal to zero, but less than ten: give it [a very lightweight challenge](./challenges/metarefresh.mdx).
3. If the request weight is greater than or equal to ten, but less than twenty: give it [a slightly heavier challenge](./challenges/proof-of-work.mdx).
4. Otherwise, give it [the heaviest challenge](./challenges/proof-of-work.mdx).
Thresholds can be configured with the following options:
<table>
<thead>
<tr>
<th>Name</th>
<th>Description</th>
<th>Example</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>`name`</td>
<td>The human-readable name for this threshold.</td>
<td>
```yaml
name: extreme-suspicion
```
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>`expression`</td>
<td>A [CEL](https://cel.dev/) expression taking the request weight and returning true or false</td>
<td>
To check if the request weight is less than zero:
```yaml
expression: weight < 0
```
To check if it's between 0 and 10 (inclusive):
```yaml
expression:
all:
- weight >= 0
- weight < 10
```
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>`action`</td>
<td>The Anubis action to apply: `ALLOW`, `CHALLENGE`, or `DENY`</td>
<td>
```yaml
action: ALLOW
```
If you set the CHALLENGE action, you must set challenge details:
```yaml
action: CHALLENGE
challenge:
algorithm: metarefresh
difficulty: 1
```
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>