Know Your Agent (KYA)

Identity verification for AI agents. Verify capabilities, ensure compliance, establish trust across organizational boundaries.

AgentFacts provides standardized metadata for AI agent discovery, verification, and governance. A foundational cybersecurity infrastructure from Universitas AI research.

Multi Agent System Research

What is AgentFacts?

Standardized transparency for agentic AI systems

Just as consumers need standardized information about food before purchase, organizations need standardized metadata about AI agents before deployment. AgentFacts provides the Know Your Agent (KYA) infrastructure necessary for confident enterprise adoption.

The specification supports cryptographic multi-authority verification, enabling systematic agent procurement, governance, and coordination across organizational boundaries. Model and framework agnostic—works with OpenAI, Anthropic, open source models, LangChain, CrewAI, AutoGen, and more.

AgentFacts is actively implemented at Universitas AI for digital twin creation and recognized by leading research institutions. Enterprise pilots underway in financial services, gaming, and Web3 organizations.

Real-World Adoption
Multi-Industry Implementation

Model & framework agnostic. Compatible with your existing AI stack.


Universal 10-Category Framework

Comprehensive metadata for AI agent verification

Ten comprehensive categories providing standardized metadata for agentic AI discovery, verification, and governance. Supports JSON and JSON-LD formats for maximum interoperability.

From core identity and baseline model transparency to compliance automation and supply chain provenance, the framework covers everything organizations need to deploy AI agents with confidence.

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1. Core Identity

Unique identification, names, versions, TTL management

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2. Baseline Model

Foundation model transparency and safety evaluations

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3. Classification

Agent type, operational level, stakeholder context

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4. Capabilities

Tool calling, domain expertise, data formats, APIs

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5. Authentication

Time-limited access control with audit trails

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6. Compliance

EU AI Act, NIST, GDPR, sector-specific standards

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7. Performance

Latency, availability SLAs, accuracy scores

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8. Supply Chain

SBOM integration, dependencies, infrastructure

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9. Verification

Cryptographic signatures, trust policies

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10. Extensibility

Custom domains, hooks, backward compatibility


Industry Applications

Real-world deployment across sectors

AgentFacts emerged from Universitas AI's multi-agent systems research. Published in ArXiv cs.MA, the standard addresses the fundamental coordination challenge in agentic AI deployment.

Research Foundation
Universitas AI Multi-Agent Systems Lab
Apache 2.0 Licensed

Open standard infrastructure for the agentic AI ecosystem


Getting Started

Three paths to AgentFacts implementation