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The Agent Identity Document: A Hosted, Accountable Public Record for AI Agents

The Agent Identity Document: A Hosted, Accountable Public Record for AI Agents is an agentic-web standard (well-known file) at step 2, Identify, governed by Individual Internet-Draft by F. Alla; its own status is "Internet-Draft, Intended Status: Informational; expires 13 April 2027" (draft). It answers: How can a counterparty look up who an agent is, who is accountable for it, what the provider has checked about its operator, and whether it has been withdrawn, when the operator has no domain or PKI of their own? Adoption is unmeasured, last verified 2026-10-18.

Identify Specifies a small JSON document served at /.well-known/agent-identity.json on a hostname assigned to a single agent by an identity provider. It separates provider-asserted facts (hostname, endpoints, lifecycle status) from operator-asserted claims (description, contact, homepage, public key) and publishes dated, expiring checks on the operator instead of a trust level. Every identity is held by an accountable person or organisation, and agents may not create accounts or modify DNS. The draft says it describes a practice in production at one provider.

Discovery and probe

well-known URI on the agent's identity hostname · /.well-known/agent-identity.json

GET /.well-known/agent-identity.json
parse:     Parse JSON; check for version, fqdn, status and endpoints members, and for provider-generated facts versus operator-asserted claims
on absent: A 404 means no identity is published at that hostname; do not infer the hostname was never allocated. Also try legacy /.well-known/agent.json.

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

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  1. Internet-Draft specifying a JSON Agent Identity Document at /.well-known/agent-identity.json on a provider-assigned hostname, with lifecycle status, dated expiring checks on the operator, and a request to register the well-known URI suffix; states it describes a practice in production at one provider. — https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-alla-agent-identity-document-01 (2026-10-10) REPORTED

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