The Ledger

The ledger

Passports for Agents. A series on identity and control for AI agents. Episode six: The Ledger. Last time, the rulebooks: different books, one demand. This time, the ledger. Every document from the wallet, mapped to what it is for an agent, with a tick against each rulebook it helps satisfy. And, for the first time in this series, a product name. KnowMyAgents is that wallet, for agents, installed inside your own building.

Who, and why

Who, and why. The passport is a signed credential for each agent, issued by your own passport office, expiring on a date. The sponsor's letter is the named human owner on every passport. The visa is the mission: a purpose, limits, a time, with capabilities as the visa class. And the unregistered traveller is the first thing the system finds: every caller that touches the door, named or not, before a single passport is issued. Together they are ADG's first control, the inventory with an owner, and what the AI Act means by oversight.

Checks at the door

Checks at the door. Check-in is the gateway: one door, inside your building. The boarding pass is the fresh one-time proof on every call, so a copied passport fails: the direct answer to the stolen-token breaches. The e-gate is the key that never leaves the wallet. The border officer is the engine: it checks the seal, the revocation list, and the visa before anything passes. Customs is the single exit: the passport removed before the model provider sees the request. And the lost-and-stolen list is one-step revocation. That is ADG's identity surface, end to end, and the identity standards, in full.

Money and records

Money and records. The travel card is metering per agent and per job, with pause, downgrade, or ask a person. The itinerary is the mission scope. The stamped pages are the tamper-evident log, the responsible human first on every line: the AI Act's record-keeping article, DORA's integrity requirement, and the forensic replay ADG asks for. The manifest is what the console receives: summaries, never the content.

Across borders, and rollout

Across borders, and rollout. The seal directory is how any partner verifies your agent without a project, and your admission rules stay yours. Passport classes are the assurance tiers. The entry-requirements page is the agent card you publish. Your staff ID is your Entra or Okta, untouched. And the camera before the barrier is observe mode first, and enforce mode only when you are ready: day one blocks nothing.

The honest score

Now the honest number. No single product satisfies a whole rulebook. Rulebooks also ask about fairness testing, evaluation, and training data, and a passport office has no opinion on those. Scored against everything, KnowMyAgents covers about half of what these frameworks ask. Scored against the questions it exists to answer, who is this, who answers, what may it do, is it really them, what happened, can we stop it, about three quarters. And on ADG's identity surface, all of it. The rest is yours: the evaluation harness, the fairness review, the governance council. KnowMyAgents gives every one of them the evidence to work from.

Give your agents passports

Fourteen pieces of paper, checks, and records that we built for people over a hundred years. Agents need the same fourteen, at machine speed. Give your agents passports. KnowMyAgents. To see it on a real machine, book a pilot: the kit installs in an afternoon, in observe mode, and nothing is blocked on day one. And for your engineers, the technical deep end: Five Agents, One Passport. Twenty-six minutes, every message explained.