# AGNTCY Alignment

This folder documents how SentryAgent.ai AgentIdP aligns with the **AGNTCY** open standard for AI agent identity, interoperability, and governance.

## What is AGNTCY?

AGNTCY is an open standard from the **Linux Foundation** that defines how AI agents should be identified, authenticated, and governed — across organisations, platforms, and ecosystems.

The core premise: AI agents are **non-human identities** that need the same rigour as human identities — unique identifiers, authenticated credentials, lifecycle management, and audit trails — but designed from the ground up for autonomous software rather than bolted onto human auth systems.

## Why it matters

Without a standard like AGNTCY, every team building AI agents invents its own identity model. Agents cannot interoperate. There is no portable way to say "this agent is who it claims to be." Governance is impossible at scale.

AGNTCY solves this by defining:
- A universal **agent identity model** (what an agent identity contains)
- A **credential and authentication model** (how agents prove their identity)
- A **lifecycle model** (how agents are provisioned, suspended, and retired)
- An **audit and accountability model** (what must be logged and retained)

## SentryAgent.ai's Position

SentryAgent.ai AgentIdP implements the AGNTCY non-human identity model as a **free, open-source reference implementation** — the first of its kind. Any developer can run it, any AGNTCY-compliant system can interoperate with it.

## Documents

| Document | What it covers |
|----------|----------------|
| [Alignment Mapping](alignment.md) | Feature-by-feature mapping of AgentIdP to the AGNTCY standard |
