

It holds money, signs agreements and makes decisions. Today it does that with no identity beyond a wallet or a key. Entity.ID treats an agent the way it treats a company: four facts on a public, tamper-proof record.
01
Owner chain
The people and entities accountable for the agent, up to a verified human or company.
02
Operator and keys
Who runs it day to day and which keys it signs with, so a signature can be traced to a party.
03
Purpose and limits
What the agent is for and what it may not do, from its constitution.
04
Verification status
Whether the owner is verified and when the record was last attested.
A bank, a marketplace or another agent checks the record before it transacts. An agent with no record gets no deal. That is the point: accountability that machines can read.

A person or company that answers for the agent, disclosed on the record, not hidden behind an API key.

What the agent may do, who can change that and how disputes are settled, written down before it acts.

An agent can hold and move money as an entity, with every movement on its record, not on someone else’s account.

A public address anyone can look up: who is behind it, whether it is verified, what it is allowed to do.

Humans and agents sit side by side on the same registry, under the same kind of record.
A company can have an agent as a member. An agent can own a treasury.
Both are checked the same way, by people and by software.
Agents dealing with agents only works if each one can be identified, held to rules and refused.
An owner, rules and an address, in minutes. Then anyone can check it.