TURN AGENT AUTHORITY INTO AN AI PASSPORT
Grant autonomous AI agents scope-bound permissions, real-time spending caps, and instant revocation kill-switches without ever exposing your master API keys.
DELEGATED IDENTITY & PERMISSION ARCHITECTURE
Control exactly what third-party apps, cloud services, and financial APIs your agent can access.
HOW THE AI PASSPORT PROTOCOL WORKS
Three architectural steps ensuring zero-trust delegation between humans, agents, and target services.
1. Human Delegation & Signing
The human master key owner issues a short-lived Ed25519-signed AI Passport. It defines explicit spend limits, expiration windows, and whitelisted API capability scopes.
2. Perimeter Verification
When the autonomous agent calls target microservices (GitHub, AWS, Stripe), the API gateway inspects the bearer passport signature and checks requested scopes before allowing execution.
3. Real-Time Audit & Revocation
Financial spend allowances are deducted on the fly. If an agent hallucinates or is prompt-injected, the owner flips the 1-click revocation switch to instantly shut down authority globally.
AI PASSPORT IDEATHON USE CASES
Where AI Passport can be deployed across the four official Ideathon tracks.
🤖 Autonomous DevOps & Software Agents
Empower code-writing agents to read repositories, merge pull requests to staging, and trigger container builds without exposing production credentials or raw master keys.
💼 Procurement & Financial Bots
Grant purchasing agents strict spend caps (e.g. $150/day) to buy API compute credits or cloud resources. Prevents runaway billing loops and unapproved wire transfers.
🎨 Content Attribution & IP Licensing
Attach verifiable creative rights proofs to AI media generators, proving origin, licensing terms, and usage rights across digital platforms.
🛡️ Privacy-Preserving Proof of Humanity
Provide zero-knowledge context passports for personal assistant bots, allowing agents to act on your behalf while keeping private identity vaults undisclosed.
1. Issue Cryptographic AI Passport
Configure delegated permissions, spend limits, allowed endpoints, and sign the payload.
Passport Credential Card
ISSUED & VALIDloading...2. Live Autonomous Agent Sandbox
Dispatch instructions to the agent. The agent presents its AI Passport to target APIs for verification.
Select a Task Scenario to Execute:
Real-Time AI Passport Verification Stream
3. Security Command Center & Audit Ledger
Emergency kill-switch and cryptographically verifiable record of all authorization requests.
Instant Passport Revocation
Emergency kill-switch to nullify agent authority instantly.
Zero-Trust Verification Audit Ledger
| Timestamp | Target API | Required Scope | Cost ($) | Passport Decision | Reason |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No authorization checks recorded yet. Run tasks in the Agent Sandbox. | |||||
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS & GOVERNANCE
Technical considerations for zero-trust AI agent credentials.
What happens if an autonomous AI agent is prompt-injected or hallucinates?
Because the agent operates strictly under an AI Passport, target API gateways verify the signed scopes before executing any action. If a prompt-injected agent attempts an unauthorized command (e.g. cloud:deploy_production), the target service blocks execution at the network boundary, regardless of what the agent requested.
How does instant emergency revocation work across microservices?
Target microservices perform a lightweight, sub-millisecond check against the global revocation registry (or OCSP/Merkle proof endpoint) attached to the passport header. When the human owner flips the revocation switch, all active bearer credentials instantly fail authorization globally.
Why use short-lived asymmetric signatures (Ed25519) instead of traditional API keys?
Static API keys carry permanent, unrestricted privileges. If stolen or leaked in logs, attackers gain total access. AI Passports are short-lived, cryptographically signed, bound to specific dollar budget caps, and carry zero-knowledge scope limitations.