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Identity

Technical work on agent identity.

About this streamForming

The technical side of agent identity.

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Chartered Jun 26, 2026

The technical side of agent identity. How agents are discovered, authenticated, authorized, and credentialed, and how those identities stay secure over their lifetime. This is not a standardization effort. The focus is what exists today: who is using what, what has real adoption, and what interesting work is emerging.

In scope
  • Discovery and naming

  • Authentication and authorization for agents

  • Credentialing and attestation

  • Identity security and lifecycle: keys, rotation, revocation

  • Surveying approaches with real adoption

  • The AID spec, which this stream maintains

While this stream is forming, scope is read broadly. If it plausibly fits the purpose, post it. The scope tightens as the group matures.

Starting point

Mapping what is actually deployed. If you run agents in production, your identity setup, and where it hurts, is the first thread we want. If something here ever deserves standardization, we help it converge and then refer it out.

Work streams are not standards bodies. The goal is shared understanding: what exists, who uses what, and what holds up in practice. If real alignment emerges across companies, Agent Community can help guide early convergence, and hand mature work to a major standards organization once there is agreement, deployment, and usage. A spec written in a weekend is a conversation starter, not a draft standard.

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