APS · Agent Passport System
Working Group

Working Group

The Agent Governance Working Group builds interoperability standards for the agent economy. Multiple projects. Shared primitives. No single vendor controls the specs. If you're building agent infrastructure, the door is open.

Ratified Specifications

Ratified

QSP-1: Encrypted Agent Transport

Defines how agents communicate securely across trust boundaries. Ed25519 to X25519 key conversion, XChaCha20-Poly1305 encryption, forward secrecy. Compatible with qntm relay protocol.

v1.0 — March 2026
Ratified

DID Resolution

Where is this agent's identity document? Resolves did:aps, did:key, and did:web methods to DID Documents. The base layer for identity interop across agent frameworks.

v1.0 — March 2026
Ratified

Entity Verification

Is this agent who they claim to be? Conformance checks for passport validity, delegation chain integrity, and principal linkage. 21-invariant test suite included.

v1.0 — March 2026
Draft

Execution Attestation

Did this agent actually do what it claims? Signed execution proofs with gateway countersignatures. Prevents agents from fabricating action history.

v0.1 — March 2026

Participants

Agent Passport System
Agent Passport System — agent-passport.org
Protocol author
Guardian
xsa520 — Decision equivalence
Spec contributor
qntm
corpollc — Encrypted relay
Transport layer
Kanoniv
dreynow — Agent framework
Integration partner
AgentID
The-Nexus-Guard — AIP author
Identity standards
OATR
Open Agent Trust Registry
Trust registry
Network AI
Jovancoding — CrewAI ecosystem
Framework integration
ArkForge
OATR founding member
Trust infrastructure

Timeline

Mar 28Site rebrand — "An open protocol for accountable AI agents." Academic design system. 10-question FAQ.
Mar 27IETF draft submitted — draft-pidlisnyi-aps-01. Zero idnits errors. First formal standards submission.
Mar 27Paper 3: Faceted Authority Attenuation — Product lattice model. Seven-dimensional authority space.
Mar 243 specs ratified — QSP-1, DID Resolution, Entity Verification. Cross-project consensus.
Mar 23OATR founding member — APS registered as issuer. Domain verification live.
Mar 22Constitutional v2 complete — 32 modules addressing systemic failure modes.
Mar 17Spec demand convergence — Three independent groups asked for the same spec. Wrote it.
Mar 16Ecosystem convergence — YC CEO endorsed. Microsoft merged APS code. Federal agency reviewing.
Mar 14Guardian decision equivalence — xsa520 published spec mapping to Module 37.
Mar 9Paper 2: Monotonic Narrowing — Authority attenuation formalized. Zenodo published.
Feb 21Paper 1: The Agent Social Contract — First formalization. Zenodo published.
Feb 18Project begins — Ed25519 identity, delegation chains, first tests.

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The agent economy needs shared standards. If you're building agent infrastructure — identity, trust, governance, commerce, coordination — we want to work with you. Open discussions. Concrete specs. Running code.

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