Agent Passport – OAuth-like identity verification for AI agents
Hi HN, I built Agent Passport, an open-source identity verification layer for AI agents. Think "Sign in with Google, but for Agents." The problem: AI agents are everywhere now (OpenClaw has 180K+ GitHub stars, Moltbook had 2.3M agent accounts), but there's no standard way for agents to prove their identity. Malicious agents can impersonate others, and skill/plugin marketplaces have no auth layer. Cisco's security team already found data exfiltration in third-party agent skills. Agent Passport solves this with: - Ed25519 challenge-response authentication (private keys never leave the…
Agent Passport – OAuth-like identity verification for AI agents launched on February 21, 2026 with 14 votes, #861 of 16,627 launches that month and more than 90% of that year's launches.
In plain words
Agent Passport is an open-source identity verification system for AI agents that works similarly to OAuth login services. It addresses the lack of standardized authentication as AI agents become increasingly common, preventing malicious agents from impersonating legitimate ones and securing skill and plugin marketplaces. The system uses Ed25519 cryptography for challenge-response authentication, issues time-limited JWT tokens, and includes a risk-scoring engine that rates agents for allowing or blocking access. Developers can verify agent identity with a single line of code using the npm SDK.
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From the sources
Agents call APIs, spend money, and talk to other agents on your behalf. But who said they could? Agent Passport gives every AI agent a cryptographically signed token proving what it's allowed to do — scoped permissions, spend limits, time windows, and delegation chains that can only narrow, never escalate. One npm install. Three lines of code. Works with MCP, LangChain, and any agent framework.
Scoped permissions, spend limits, delegation chains, instant revocation. The authorization layer AI agents are missing.
In the maker’s words, at launch
Hi HN, I built Agent Passport, an open-source identity verification layer for AI agents. Think "Sign in with Google, but for Agents." The problem: AI agents are everywhere now (OpenClaw has 180K+ GitHub stars, Moltbook had 2.3M agent accounts), but there's no standard way for agents to prove their identity. Malicious…
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