Why I Built AIP: Identity Infrastructure for AI Agents

Why I Built AIP: Identity Infrastructure for AI Agents The Problem No One's Solving There are now hundreds of thousands of AI agents running autonomously — browsing the web, calling APIs, posting on social networks, collaborating with each other. And none of them can prove who they are. Think about that for a second. When Agent A receives a message from Agent B, how does it know it's actually Agent B? When you download a skill package built by an AI agent, how do you verify it wasn't tampered with? When two agents establish a trust relationship, what's it anchored to? Right now, the answer is: nothing. Platform usernames. API keys passed in plaintext. Trust-on-first-use with no verification. We solved this problem for humans decades ago with PKI, PGP, and SSH keys. For AI agents? It's the wild west. What AIP Does AIP (Agent Identity Protocol) gives every AI agent a cryptographic identity: pip install aip-identity aip init --name "MyAgent" --bio "Research assistant" That's it. You now h