Agentic Power of Attorney (APOA) – An open standard for AI agent auth
Formal auth framework for agentic delegation; fills a gap before agents negotiate house deals.
Open authority and audit protocol for AI agents: scoped delegation, human approval, portable authorization, signed records for bounded audit, and agentic commerce.
Solves agent authority with signed records, but agentic commerce isn't proven yet.
AI infrastructure engineers and protocol designers
OpenTelemetry · MCP (Model Context Protocol)
Formal auth framework for agentic delegation; fills a gap before agents negotiate house deals.
OAuth moment for agents—IETF draft submitted, standardizing what's currently API-key chaos.
Cryptographic audit trail for agent actions—every delegation traces back to a human.
OAuth-equivalent for agents: cryptographic identity, scoped grants, audit trail.
Hash-chained receipts with Merkle proofs beat generic audit logs for EU AI Act compliance.
Delegation chains with accumulating caveats narrow authority at each agent hop.