Guides to AI agent identity
Long-form answers to the questions people ask before they trust an AI agent: how to check one, what Know Your Agent means, what a registry should and should not decide, and how agents authenticate to each other. Each guide states what agenid.com can do today and where the protocol goes further than the deployment.
How to verify an AI agent, step by step
How to verify an AI agent step by step: resolve its AgenID, recompute the manifest digest, check the Ed25519 proof and compare the operator key from two sources.
Know Your Agent (KYA): what it is and how to build on it
Know Your Agent (KYA) is an emerging practice for establishing who an AI agent is and who answers for it. Its components, the KYC analogy, and where AgenID fits.
AI agent registries: built for discovery, not for trust
What an AI agent registry does, why it should serve discovery rather than trust, and how AgenID keeps its registry non-authoritative with operator signatures.
Agent-to-agent authentication: what each pattern proves
How AI agents authenticate each other: API keys, OAuth, mTLS, HTTP Message Signatures, A2A Agent Cards, DIDs and AgenID, and what each one actually authenticates.