Guides

Practical, source-backed guides for establishing and verifying who an autonomous agent is — its principal, identity, credentials, permissions and trust history — before you let it act. Start with the two explainers below, then move on to the how-to guides.

Start here

• What is Know Your Agent (KYA)? — the definition, the vocabulary, and why it matters.
• KYA vs KYC vs KYB — how verifying an agent differs from verifying a customer or a business.

Practical guides

• How to verify an agent: a practical checklist
• The agent identity lifecycle
• How to scope an agent’s permissions
• Audit trails for agents: what to log

Approaches & defences

• Agent identity: approaches compared
• Defending against agent spoofing

Applied

• KYA for agentic payments
• Worked examples

Related: the Glossary, the standards & regulation tracker, and code examples for verifying an agent.