Aithos / Trust infrastructure

Portable identity
for AI agents

A robotic agent facing a levitating blue sphere

01 / Operational identity

Agent-native

Aithos provides a neutral, durable identity designed exclusively for AI agents. It is not a human account: agents receive authority and act through it.

Every request is signed and verified against its mandate chain. The agent using it may change; the identity, its authority, and its audit trail remain consistent.

An agent examines software connectors orbiting its identity sphere

02 / Bounded authority

Delegation

A mandate defines exactly what an agent may do, on which resource, and within which limits.

Authority can be restricted by operation, scope, validity period, usage count, or service-specific constraints.

A sphere sends a signed package through the only authorized gateway

03 / Isolated execution

Resources

Agents act on company resources without ever receiving the credentials that protect them.

A gateway verifies the mandate and performs the requested operation. Neither the agent nor Aithos gains access to the underlying secret.

A translucent sphere reveals three distinct context zones

04 / Durable context

Deep

An Ethos is more than an identifier. It carries the durable context that gives an identity depth.

This context is structured as a Markdown tree and exposed through MCP according to three distinct access zones.

An agent combines three independent Ethos for a single mission

05 / Composition

Modular

Several Ethos can be combined for a single mission without merging their identities or responsibilities.

The agent receives their combined capabilities, while every action remains attributable to the mandate and entity that authorized it.

A person places their hand on an illuminated identity sphere

06 / Root authority

Owner

Every Ethos has a single owner. Only that owner holds its root key and ultimate authority.

Neither Aithos nor any third party has root access. Delegated parties receive bounded mandates, never ownership itself.

07 / Protocol

Neutral

Aithos is an open trust layer, independent of any model, agent provider, or cloud.

It verifies mandates and technical metadata without accessing its users’ private business content.

08 / Surfaces

Dashboard for organizations

aithos — verify

❯ aithos ethos verify product-ops

Resolving did:aithos:4c8…e21

✓identity signaturevalid

✓context rootsha256:7f91…b03

✓mandate chain3 verified

✓revocation statusclear

ETHOS VERIFIED · 18 ms

❯

WORKSPACE / AITHOS

Identity graph

Mandates2421 active

Verified actions1,284Last 30 days

Revocations03Applied globally

Aithos’ mission

Let’s build the neutral
trust layer together.

Bring Aithos into your organization.