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A decentralized approach to agent identity and discovery built on W3C DIDs, so agents find and authenticate each other across the open web with no central registry. Scope: Agent ↔ Agent · identity. The key architectural concerns are the boundary being bridged, the trust model and interoperability with existing agents and services.
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ANP is a protocol through which AI agents can identify themselves, discover one another, and exchange messages.
ANP grew out of agent research and was developed from 2024 as an open, web-oriented protocol for connecting autonomous agents, building on HTTP, WebID, and decentralized identity.
Imagine a post office where every agent has a verifiable address and a standard message format.
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ANP can give distributed agents web-oriented addresses and a shared message model, for example in open agent directories. Identity verification, privacy, and limited adoption still make practical interoperability difficult.
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