How does Agent-to-Wallet Protocol for Digital Credentials compare to other present protocols?

Agent-to-Wallet Protocol for Digital Credentials (A2WP) is one of 4 standards at step 8, Present (Show a human the result). Every standard at this step is listed at https://agenticweb.wiki/category/present/.

Agent-to-Wallet Protocol for Digital Credentials A2WP

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Candidate · auto-drafted, unreviewed · confidence 80%

Agent-to-Wallet Protocol for Digital Credentials
Category	Present
Governed by	Individual Internet-Draft submitted to the IETF Network Working Group; not adopted by a working group per the page text
Status	Internet-Draft, Intended Status: Standards Track; expires 20 April 2027; work in progress
Phase	draft
Implementation	unknown
Adoption	unmeasured
Version	draft-senarath-a2wp-01 (2026-10-17)
Specification	https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-senarath-a2wp-01
Found at	Not specified in the visible text; bindings (transport and agent authentication) are out of scope of the document
Last checked	2026-10-19
Freshness	current · checked 2026-10-19
Solves	Prove an agent's identity, Delegate a user's authority to an agent

Agent-to-Wallet Protocol for Digital Credentials (A2WP) is an agentic-web standard (endpoint) at step 8, Present, governed by Individual Internet-Draft submitted to the IETF Network Working Group; its own status is "Internet-Draft, Intended Status: Standards Track; expires 20 April 2027; work in progress" (draft). It answers: How can an AI agent hand a credential offer or presentation request to a wallet unchanged, so that credentials and keys never reach the agent, and still resume its task from the outcome and continuation? Adoption is unmeasured, last verified 2026-10-19.

Present A2WP is an individual IETF Internet-Draft (Standards Track intended) that defines messages and calls between an AI Agent and a Wallet. The Agent submits a credential offer or presentation request exactly as received. The Wallet decides whether to act, involves the Principal when needed, and runs OpenID4VCI or OpenID4VP with the Issuer or Verifier. The Agent polls the operation status and receives any continuation, while keys and credentials stay in the Wallet. Transport bindings, wallet policy, and credential formats are out of scope.

Discovery and probe

Not specified in the visible text; bindings (transport and agent authentication) are out of scope of the document

NONE 
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on absent: No public discovery mechanism is defined in the visible text, so support cannot be observed from a site.

Not probed live: no-fixed-path. candidate record; probe rule pending

History

2026-10-19 — auto-drafted candidate from exa (https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-senarath-a2wp-01)

Instances

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References

The Internet-Draft defines A2WP, where an AI Agent passes a credential offer or presentation request unchanged to a Wallet. The Wallet runs OpenID4VCI or OpenID4VP, and credentials, presentations and keys never reach the agent. The draft has Submit, Get and Cancel calls and an operation lifecycle of pending, completed, failed and cancelled. — https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-senarath-a2wp-01 (2026-10-17) REPORTED

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