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Verifiable provisioning records for agent-driven infrastructure

When agents and CLIs provision services, credentials, environments, and deploy targets, signed records help teams verify what changed without owning the runtime.

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Standards

AIPREF: a common language for AI usage preferences

How the IETF AIPREF working group is standardizing machine-readable AI usage preferences, and where portable signed records fit alongside it.

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Standards

robots.txt (RFC 9309): crawl access control for the web

RFC 9309 formalized the Robots Exclusion Protocol. A look at what it does, what it does not, and why access decisions still benefit from verifiable records.

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Explainer

What is HTTP 402? A neutral explainer

HTTP 402 Payment Required, its history, its recent revival for agents and APIs, and how it relates to (but is separate from) signed interaction records.

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Agents

Portable evidence across agent-to-agent handoffs

As agents hand work to other agents, the record of what was authorized and what happened has to travel with them. A look at portable evidence across A2A flows.

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