agentpin

Domain-anchored cryptographic identity for AI agents. Part of the ThirdKey trust stack (SchemaPin → AgentPin → Symbiont).

Requires Python >= 3.8.

Install

pip install agentpin

Quick Start

from agentpin import (
    generate_key_pair,
    generate_key_id,
    pem_to_jwk,
    issue_credential,
    verify_credential_offline,
    build_discovery_document,
    KeyPinStore,
    Capability,
)

# Generate keys
private_key_pem, public_key_pem = generate_key_pair()
kid = generate_key_id(public_key_pem)
jwk = pem_to_jwk(public_key_pem, kid)

# Build discovery document
discovery = build_discovery_document(
    "example.com", "maker", [jwk],
    [{
        "agent_id": "urn:agentpin:example.com:my-agent",
        "name": "My Agent",
        "capabilities": ["read:data", "write:reports"],
        "status": "active",
    }],
    2,
)

# Issue credential
credential = issue_credential(
    private_key_pem=private_key_pem,
    kid=kid,
    issuer="example.com",
    agent_id="urn:agentpin:example.com:my-agent",
    audience="verifier.com",
    capabilities=[
        Capability.create("read", "data"),
        Capability.create("write", "reports"),
    ],
    constraints=None,
    delegation_chain=None,
    ttl_secs=3600,
)

# Verify credential
result = verify_credential_offline(
    credential_jwt=credential,
    discovery=discovery,
    revocation=None,
    pin_store=KeyPinStore(),
    audience="verifier.com",
)

if result.valid:
    print(f"Agent: {result.agent_id}")
    print(f"Capabilities: {result.capabilities}")
    print(f"Key pinning: {result.key_pinning}")
else:
    print(f"Failed: {result.error_code} - {result.error_message}")

Features

• ES256 (ECDSA P-256) cryptographic credentials
• Domain-anchored .well-known/agent-identity.json discovery
• 12-step verification protocol
• Maker-deployer delegation chains
• Capability-scoped credentials with constraints
• TOFU key pinning (compatible with SchemaPin)
• Credential, agent, and key-level revocation
• Mutual authentication with challenge-response
• Trust bundles for air-gapped and enterprise verification (v0.2.0)

API

Key Management

generate_key_pair()              # → (private_key_pem, public_key_pem)
generate_key_id(public_key_pem)  # → kid (hex SHA-256)
pem_to_jwk(public_key_pem, kid)  # → JWK dict
jwk_to_pem(jwk)                  # → PEM string

Credentials

issue_credential(
    private_key_pem, kid, issuer, agent_id, audience,
    capabilities, constraints, delegation_chain, ttl_secs
)
# → compact JWT string

Verification

# Offline (with local discovery document)
verify_credential_offline(jwt, discovery, revocation, pin_store, audience, config)
# → VerificationResult(valid, agent_id, issuer, capabilities, key_pinning, ...)

# Online (auto-fetches discovery from issuer domain)
verify_credential(jwt, pin_store, audience, config)

Discovery & Revocation

build_discovery_document(entity, entity_type, public_keys, agents, max_delegation_depth)
build_revocation_document(entity)
add_revoked_credential(doc, jti, reason)
add_revoked_agent(doc, agent_id, reason)
add_revoked_key(doc, kid, reason)

Mutual Authentication

from agentpin import create_challenge, create_response, verify_response

challenge = create_challenge(verifier_credential)
response = create_response(challenge, private_key_pem, kid)
verify_response(response, challenge["nonce"], public_key_pem)

Key Pinning

from agentpin import KeyPinStore, PinningResult

store = KeyPinStore()
result = store.check_and_pin(domain, jwk)  # PinningResult.FIRST_USE | MATCHED | CHANGED
store.add_key(domain, jwk)                  # allow key rotation
json_str = store.to_json()                  # persist
restored = KeyPinStore.from_json(json_str)  # restore

Trust Bundles (v0.2.0)

from agentpin import (
    create_trust_bundle,
    find_bundle_discovery,
    verify_credential_with_bundle,
    save_trust_bundle,
    load_trust_bundle,
)

# Create a bundle with pre-loaded discovery documents
bundle = create_trust_bundle()
bundle["documents"].append(discovery)
bundle["revocations"].append(revocation)

# Verify without any HTTP calls
result = verify_credential_with_bundle(
    credential, bundle, pin_store=KeyPinStore(), audience="verifier.com"
)

# Save / load bundles to disk
save_trust_bundle(bundle, "trust-bundle.json")
bundle = load_trust_bundle("trust-bundle.json")

Configuration

from agentpin import VerifierConfig

config = VerifierConfig(
    clock_skew_secs=60,   # allow 60s time skew
    max_ttl_secs=86400,   # max 24h credential lifetime
)

Cross-Language Interoperability

Credentials issued by the Python package can be verified by the Rust and JavaScript implementations, and vice versa. All implementations use DER-encoded ECDSA signatures and identical JSON field names.

License

MIT — ThirdKey.ai