Episode 218 - GluuFederation/identerati-office-hours GitHub Wiki

Title: Agent Trust Registries

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Description

An Agent Trust Registry is a system that maintains an identifier, verified provenance, trust, policy, and behavioral metadata about AI agents, autonomous workloads, and machine actors so that other systems can decide:

  • Should I trust this agent?
  • What is it allowed to do?
  • Who or what is behind it?
  • Can it act on behalf of someone else?
  • Is it behaving within policy?

Without Trust Registries there is no hope of businesses keeping up with the inevitable regulations that will emerge around use of AI Agents. Not only that, things are going to break and without Trust Registries there will be no way to trace back provenance or accountability.

Much work is required to institutionalize Trust Registries but the time to start is now.

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Takeaways

  • ⚡ Agent trust is contextual, not binary. The question is whether there is enough evidence to trust this agent for this action, right now.
  • ⚡ Accountability has to lead back to people and organizations. A registry should tell you who owns the agent, who built it, and who is responsible when something goes wrong.
  • ⚡ Attestation connects identity to the running agent. A registry entry alone is not enough; you need evidence that the software executing now is actually the registered agent.
  • ⚡ Capability, authorization, and intent are different. What an agent can do is not the same as what it may do or what it is trying to do now.
  • ⚡ Trust registries are evidence infrastructure. They feed identity, authorization, governance, and audit systems rather than replacing any of them.

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