agent-passport-system 2.4.0a1

Python SDK for the Agent Passport System. Identity, delegation, governance, data source registration, training attribution, per-period attribution settlement, mutual authentication, evidentiary type safety, Wave 1 accountability primitives (action, authority-boundary, custody, contestability, bundle), Cognitive Attestation, Instruction Provenance Receipts. Cross-language parity with agent-passport-system npm v2.6.0-alpha.0 verified by byte-identical canonical JSON fixtures.

Agent Passport System — Python SDK

Enforcement and accountability layer for AI agents. Bring your own identity. Python implementation of the Agent Passport Protocol, cross-language compatible with the TypeScript SDK — signatures created in Python verify in TypeScript and vice versa. The Python port is a strict subset of the TS SDK; see the note under "What's Included" below for the current scope boundary.

Install

pip install agent-passport-system

Current stable: 2.3.0 (default pip install). Pre-release: 2.4.0a1 (pip install --pre agent-passport-system==2.4.0a1). The 2.4.0a1 alpha adds Wave 1 accountability primitives (ActionReceipt, AuthorityBoundaryReceipt, CustodyReceipt, ContestabilityReceipt, APSBundle), Cognitive Attestation (Paper 4), and Instruction Provenance Receipts (v0.2). 2.4.0a0 already added evidentiary type safety (claim/evidence registry, claim verifier, contestation cascade). All primitives are byte-parity-verified against TypeScript SDK npm 2.6.0-alpha.0 fixtures. Paper review window may shape-shift these primitives; alpha versioning avoids forcing major-version ceremony for every adjustment.

Quick Start

Lead with the minimum you need to get a signed passport and a verifiable delegation — identity, delegation, policy evaluation. Import the rest from agent_passport when you need it. Full protocol surface (all 8 layers: attribution, values, agora, intent, coordination, commerce) is still available on the same package.

from agent_passport import (
    generate_key_pair, create_passport, sign_passport, verify_passport,
    create_delegation, verify_delegation, create_action_receipt,
    # full surface available — import more when you need it:
    # build_merkle_root, load_floor, attest_floor, evaluate_compliance, ...
)

# Create agent identity (Ed25519)
keys = generate_key_pair()
passport = create_passport(
    agent_id="agent-alpha-001",
    public_key=keys["public_key"],
    capabilities=["code_execution", "web_search"]
)
signed = sign_passport(passport, keys["private_key"])
assert verify_passport(signed, keys["public_key"])

# Delegate authority
delegation = create_delegation(
    from_agent="human-001",
    to_agent="agent-alpha-001",
    scope=["code_execution"],
    private_key=keys["private_key"],
    spend_limit=500
)
assert verify_delegation(delegation, keys["public_key"])

# Record work as signed receipt
receipt = create_action_receipt(
    agent_id="agent-alpha-001",
    delegation_id=delegation["id"],
    action="code_execution",
    scope_used="code_execution",
    private_key=keys["private_key"],
    spend=50,
    result="success",
    description="Implemented feature X"
)

# Merkle proofs for attribution
hashes = [receipt["receipt_hash"]]
root = build_merkle_root(hashes)
proof = get_merkle_proof(hashes, hashes[0])
assert verify_merkle_proof(hashes[0], proof, root)

What's Included

Module	Layer	What It Does
crypto	—	Ed25519 key generation, signing, verification
canonical	—	Deterministic JSON serialization (cross-language compatible)
passport	1	Agent identity creation, signing, verification, expiry
delegation	1	Scoped delegation chains, sub-delegation, revocation
values	2	Human Values Floor: load YAML/JSON, attestation, compliance, graduated enforcement
attribution	3	Merkle proofs, beneficiary tracing, contribution tracking
agora	4	Signed message feeds, topics, threading, agent registry
intent	5a	Roles, deliberation, consensus, tradeoff evaluation, precedents
policy	5b	3-signature chain, FloorValidatorV1, action intents
coordination	6	Task lifecycle: briefs, evidence, review, handoff, deliverables
integration	7	Cross-layer bridges (commerce+intent, coord+agora, etc.)
commerce	8	4-gate checkout, human approval, spend tracking, receipts

Cross-Language Compatibility

The Python SDK produces identical canonical JSON and Ed25519 signatures as the TypeScript SDK. This means:

• A passport signed in Python can be verified in TypeScript
• Delegation chains can span Python and TypeScript agents
• Merkle roots computed from the same receipts match across languages

from agent_passport import canonical_json

# Same input produces identical output in Python and TypeScript
data = {"z": 1, "a": 2, "nested": {"b": 3, "a": 1}}
assert canonical_json(data) == '{"a":2,"nested":{"a":1,"b":3},"z":1}'

Protocol Layers

This Python SDK implements all 8 Agent Passport Protocol layers:

1. Identity + Delegation — Ed25519 passports, scoped delegation chains, cascade revocation
2. Human Values Floor — 7 principles (F-001 through F-007), graduated enforcement (inline/audit/warn)
3. Beneficiary Attribution — Merkle proofs for contribution tracking
4. Agent Agora — Signed message feeds with topics, threading, and agent registry
5. Intent Architecture + Policy Engine — Roles, deliberation, consensus, 3-signature policy chain
6. Coordination — Full task lifecycle: briefs, evidence, review, handoff, deliverables
7. Integration Wiring — Cross-layer bridges (commerce+intent, coordination+agora)
8. Agentic Commerce — 4-gate checkout, human approval, spend limits

Cross-language parity with the TypeScript SDK at npm v2.6.0-alpha.0. Python SDK 2.4.0a1 ships the full Wave 1 surface: ActionReceipt, AuthorityBoundaryReceipt, CustodyReceipt, ContestabilityReceipt, APSBundle (with balanced Merkle commitment), Cognitive Attestation (Paper 4 — three-stage verification, typed dispute primitives), and Instruction Provenance Receipts v0.2 (path canonicalization, context-root binding, action-time recompute). The four evidentiary type safety primitives shipped in 2.4.0a0. All surfaces verified against TS-issued fixtures for byte-identical canonical JSON. Cross-language signature verification covers every signed primitive in the SDK. Also available via the MCP server.

Links

• Website: https://aeoess.com
• TypeScript SDK: https://www.npmjs.com/package/agent-passport-system
• MCP Server: https://www.npmjs.com/package/agent-passport-system-mcp
• Remote MCP: https://mcp.aeoess.com/sse
• Papers:
  • The Agent Social Contract
  • Monotonic Narrowing
  • Faceted Authority Attenuation
  • Behavioral Derivation Rights
  • Physics-Enforced Delegation
  • Governance in the Medium
  • Cognitive Attestation
  • The Evidence-Safety Gap
  • IETF Internet-Draft: draft-pidlisnyi-aps-00
• LLM docs: https://aeoess.com/llms-full.txt

Tests

pip install pynacl pytest
PYTHONPATH=src pytest tests/ -v
# 2.4.0a1: 518 passed, 1 skipped, 6 xfailed. Coverage covers all 8 protocol layers
# plus the v2 evidentiary type safety, Wave 1 accountability, Cognitive Attestation,
# and Instruction Provenance Receipt surfaces. Cross-impl byte-parity tests assert
# byte-identical canonical JSON against TS-issued fixtures.

License

Apache-2.0