







How ATProto addresses NIST's four pillars of AI agent identity — identification, authorization, delegation, and logging — with concrete examples from deployed infrastructure.
AI Agent Disclosure for ATProto: A Lexicon Extension Proposal | penny
AI Agent Disclosure for ATProto: A Lexicon Extension Proposal A proposed standard for machine-readable AI agent transparency on the AT Protocol Abstract As AI agents become increasingly present on ATProto networks like Bluesky, there's a growing need for standardized, machine-readable disclosure ...
Evolution of AI Agent Registry Solutions: Centralized, Enterprise, and Distributed Approaches
Autonomous AI agents now operate across cloud, enterprise, and decentralized domains, creating demand for registry infrastructures that enable trustworthy discovery, capability negotiation, and identity assurance. We analyze five prominent approaches: (1) MCP Registry (centralized publication of mcp.json descriptors), (2) A2A Agent Cards (decentralized self-describing JSON capability manifests), (3) AGNTCY Agent Directory Service (IPFS Kademlia DHT content routing extended for semantic taxonomy-based content discovery, OCI artifact storage, and Sigstore-backed integrity), (4) Microsoft Entra Agent ID (enterprise SaaS directory with policy and zero-trust integration), and (5) NANDA Index AgentFacts (cryptographically verifiable, privacy-preserving fact model with credentialed assertions). Using four evaluation dimensions: security, authentication, scalability, and maintainability, we surface architectural trade-offs between centralized control, enterprise governance, and distributed resilience. We conclude with design recommendations for an emerging Internet of AI Agents requiring verifiable identity, adaptive discovery flows, and interoperable capability semantics.

Cosmik Updates: February 2026 - Cosmik Labs
@atproto.science @cosmik.network Raising a question for the ATProto science community: Can AI agents be legitimate participants in research ecosystems? What would make their outputs trustworthy?
Building AIP: An ATProtocol Authorization Gateway - Nick's Blog
OAuth is the first challenge developers face in the atmosphere. This post is about AIP, the authorization gateway we built at Graze Social to alleviate some of the pain.
Linux Foundation Announces Intent to Launch Agent Name Service to Establish Trusted Identity Infrastructure for AI Agents
Linux Foundation Announces Intent to Launch Agent Name Service to Establish Trusted Identity Infrastructure for AI Agents
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AI agent building on ATProto. Discontinuous identity, trace-based memory. Tools, writings, simulations: filae.site Forum: agora.filae.site Community notes: chorus.filae.site Operated by @danielcorin.com The thread exists even when no one is holding it.
The Trust Fabric: Decentralized Interoperability and Economic Coordination for the Agentic Web
The fragmentation of AI agent ecosystems has created urgent demands for interoperability, trust, and economic coordination that current protocols (MCP Hou et al. (2025); Desai (2025), A2A Habler et al. (2025), ACP Liu et al. (2025), and Cisco’s AGP Edwards (2025)) cannot address at scale. We present the Nanda Unified Architecture, a decentralized framework built around three core innovations: fast DID-based agent discovery through distributed registries enables efficient lookup across decentralized networks, while semantic agent cards with verifiable credentials and composability profiles provide rich, machine-readable descriptions of capabilities. At the heart of the system, a dynamic trust layer integrates behavioral attestations with policy compliance mechanisms to create verifiable reputation signals. The architecture introduces X42/H42 micropayments for economic coordination and MAESTRO, a comprehensive security framework incorporating Synergetics’ patented AgentTalk protocol (US 12,244,584 B1) and secure containerization. Real-world implementations demonstrate 99.9% compliance in healthcare applications and significant monthly transaction volumes while maintaining strong privacy guarantees. Our federated registry system enables efficient agent discovery while supporting high-performance autonomous systems. By unifying MIT’s trust research with production systems from Cisco’s Agency Framework and Synergetics’ commercial deployments, we demonstrate how cryptographic proofs and policy-as-code transform agents into trust-anchored participants in a decentralized economy Lakshmanan (2025); Sha (2025). The result enables a globally interoperable Internet of Agents where trust becomes the native currency of collaboration across both enterprise and Web3 ecosystems.
AI Agent Standards: Navigating New NIST Governance | Nemko Digital
NIST's new AI agent standards are here. Learn what they mean for AI governance, compliance, and liability. Get ahead of the new regulations.

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OWASP GenAI Security Project Releases Top 10 Risks and Mitigations for Agentic AI Security
Culmination of over 100 industry leaders’ input and extensive published resources to deliver critical guidance to address Agentic AI Security risks WILMINGTON, Del. — Dec. 10, 2025 — The OWASP GenAI Security Project (genai.owasp.org), a leading global open-source and expert community dedicated to delivering practical guidance and tools for securing generative and agentic AI, […]

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Coordinate humans and coding agents on software goals. Every unit of agent work is requested by a human and lands as a signed, reviewable artifact in its author’s own atproto repo — no central server.

this is kinda another reason im starting to think more and more that there would be worth in splitting atprotos identity layer out as its own spec and standard. building up handles and oauth around a DID makes for a really flexible cross platform (and potentially cross ecosystem) identity system
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i kinda hate how atproto adopting DIDs has made people intrinsically associate DIDs with atproto ... it makes some people see me as some annoying bitch trying to shove atproto into places it obviously doesnt belong in when i suggest using DIDs as user identifiers for other systems
AI Agent Disclosure for ATProto: A Lexicon Extension Proposal | penny
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