Technical Steering Committee
The TSC guides project-wide technical direction, governance, and escalated decisions.
Meet the TSCAgent Name Service
Verifiable identity
for AI agents.
ANS is an open specification for naming, discovering, and authenticating AI agents. It connects domain names, certificates, and transparency records so peers can verify who they are communicating with.
The published specifications are drafts under active development.
Identity, made verifiableIllustrative example
ANS / AGENT IDENTITY●
payments.example.com
ans://v1.0.0.payments.example.com
- Identity
- Bound to a domain
- Status
- Registration is current
- Possession
- Key holder authenticated
An identity you can check.
Watch the overview
What is ANS?
A short introduction to agent identity and why it matters when AI agents interact.
Explore how ANS worksImplementations
Build with ANS.
Run the Registration Authority and Transparency Log locally, inspect a registration, and verify its receipt. Use an SDK to bring verification into your application.
Reference implementation
A runnable registration lifecycle, transparency log, and offline verifier.
SDK + CLI
Go
Registry and transparency clients, verification, and the ANS CLI.
ans-sdk-goSDKRust
API clients, shared types, and verification libraries with rustls support.
ans-sdk-rustSDKJava
Registration, discovery, cryptography, and agent client modules.
ans-sdk-javaBrowse implementations, integrations, and their supported scope →
Community & governance
Participate in the project.
ANS develops through public specifications, code, and decisions.
Maintainers & reviewers
Repository teams review changes, maintain implementations, and take responsibility for releases.
Find a repository teamA place to get involved
Contribute code, improve documentation, test an integration, or help review a proposal.
Start contributingANS establishes identity. Applications still decide what a peer may do.
How verification works