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Know Your Agent

Proposed framework for verifying AI agents' identity and permissions when acting on a user's behalf, akin to "know your customer" checks.

Known aliases

  • Know-Your-Agent framework
  • KYA

Current stories

buildOne report1 publisher

PlanFence checks the records that justified an action before the agent executes it

A dev.to roundup reads three agent papers around one design question: what a pending action still depends on at the moment it fires. The strongest number in it is 68 percent, and it belongs to somebody else's corruption test.

Publishers:dev.to

Reality

Evidence36
Adoption18
Hype gap+14
Incentives24
Confidence42
scienceOne report1 publisher

Visa, Mastercard and Ant International agree to honor each other's AI agent registrations

The Sao Paulo framework promises that an agent registered with one network will be recognized by the others, with certification and continuous monitoring attached. No specification, governance body or timeline has been published.

Publishers:forkast.news

Reality

Evidence44
Adoption27
Hype gap+42
Incentives79
Confidence55
buildOne report1 publisher

Agents fit neither IAM model, so the bill lands on per-step tokens and an intent authority

A New Stack prescription lists six identity capabilities for autonomous agents. The useful part is which old assumption each one retires, and what per-step credentials cost to run.

Publishers:thenewstack.io

Reality

Evidence28
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+42
Incentives58
Confidence46
securityOne report1 publisher

Experian's 2026 fraud numbers move the work from catching events to proving people

The report describes fraud as a chain, not a moment. That pushes spend toward verification and turns every channel where a human can be persuaded into a control point.

Reality

Evidence34
Adoption56
Hype gap+28
Incentives76
Confidence42