The Institute

Know Your Agent: The Next Century of Commercial Infrastructure

How the Open KYA standard turns probabilistic black boxes into verifiable, bonded, accountable economic actors.

The Agency Alignment Gap — the widening chasm between the autonomy we grant machines and the liability we accept for them — is the defining risk of the Agency Age. We lay out the Open KYA standard in full: a composite identity (DID + TEE + slashable Bond), an eight-section Manifest, six defense-in-depth services, a five-phase lifecycle, and a graduated Hybrid Court. The infrastructure that turns autonomous code into accountable economic actors.