UAI – An open protocol for identity and accountability of AI agents
Universal Agent Identity (UAI) Every AI agent should be accountable. An identity and accountability layer for autonomous artificial intelligence — open protocol, reference implementation, and a path to a federated network of independently operated registries. A real agent in a running stack, captured by make screenshots.
- ▪Universal Agent Identity (UAI) Every AI agent should be accountable.
- ▪An identity and accountability layer for autonomous artificial intelligence — open protocol, reference implementation, and a path to a federated network of independently operated registries.
- ▪A real agent in a running stack, captured by make screenshots.
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Story provenance
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Story provenance
Attribution is not the same as permission. This drawer separates discovery metadata, excerpts, WeSearch-generated summaries, reuse status, and whether the publisher receives the visit. Nothing here claims a legal grant the publisher has not made.
Record
| Original publisher | GitHub |
| Canonical URL | https://github.com/rodmontiel/uai |
| Publication time | Wed, 30 Sep 2026 19:24:22 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-09-30T19:37:01.684Z |
| Last seen | 2026-09-30T19:37:01.684Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | JKuXC5xtH4YA · 1 stories |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
Rights status (four layers)
WeSearch handling by dimension
| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
Opening excerpt (first ~120 words) tap to expand
Universal Agent Identity (UAI) Every AI agent should be accountable. An identity and accountability layer for autonomous artificial intelligence — open protocol, reference implementation, and a path to a federated network of independently operated registries. A real agent in a running stack, captured by make screenshots. Every value comes from the API — including UAI-AL0 — how strongly the identity was established, not how safe the agent is, which is the sentence this project exists to keep saying. Mission Make every action taken by an autonomous agent attributable to a named, responsible party — and make that attribution checkable by anyone, without trusting the party that produced it. An AI agent sends an email, moves money, changes a firewall rule, reads a customer record.
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Excerpt limited to ~120 words for fair-use compliance. The full article is at GitHub.