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§ PlatformAgentID

Every AI agent gets an ID. Every action gets checked.

An AI agent is software that acts on its own. AgentID finds every one in your company, gives each a short-lived ID, and checks every action against what it is allowed to do. Next, it will tie every agent to the person who answers for it.

THE PROBLEM

Companies are adding AI agents fast. Most have none of this.

No ID

Nothing proves who the agent is, or who sent it. It just acts.

No owner

Anyone can hand an agent a password. Nobody is responsible for it.

No limits

Once it is in, it can reach every file and every system.

Machine identities already outnumber people 80 to 1 (CyberArk, 2025). AI agents are pushing it higher.

01

Find every AI agent

AgentID connects to AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud and AI platforms such as Anthropic, then lists every AI agent running in your company in one place.

AgentID inventory screen showing 541 AI agents found by 7 scanners across 66 realms, with counts by service and by AI model.
541 AI agents found by 7 connected scanners, across 20 AI models
02

Give every agent a short-lived ID

Each agent gets its own digital ID, called an NHID™. It lasts just 10 minutes. If one is ever stolen, it stops working within minutes, instead of staying usable for months like a password.

AgentID Agent Identity panel showing an agent registered and ready for identity, with the note that its 10-minute identity will appear there once issued.
03

See what each agent is, and what it can do

For every agent, AgentID records which AI model it runs on and which tools it is allowed to use. No more guessing what an agent can reach.

AgentID agent detail showing the agent's identity, the AI model it runs on, and the tools it is allowed to use.
04

Check every action before it happens

This is called runtime authorization. Every time an agent tries to do something, like open a file, use a tool or call another system, AgentID checks its ID first. If the ID has expired, has been cancelled, or does not allow that action, the action is refused.

The check runs in a small gateway next to your agents, inside your own cloud or hosted by us.

  • Agent AGT-0042 asks to
    Read the customer list
    AgentID checks ID is valid and not cancelled Allowed for this agent
    Allowed
  • Agent AGT-0042 asks to
    Send a payment
    AgentID checks ID is valid and not cancelled Not allowed for this agent
    Refused
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05

No passwords or keys to steal

To find your agents, AgentID needs to connect to your AI platforms. It does this without storing your passwords or API keys. It uses temporary credentials that expire on their own, and it never shows them on screen.

AgentID panel explaining that it uses short-lived credentials when scanning, and never displays a token or private key.
Workload identity federation using short-lived SPIFFE JWT-SVIDs
06

See how agents work together

AI agents often hand work to other agents. AgentID maps the whole team: which agent is in charge, and which agents help it. Every helper is tracked, not just the one you started.

AgentID workflow showing one supervisor agent and two collaborator agents, each registered.
07

Stop any agent, safely

If something goes wrong, you can cancel an agent's ID so it can no longer act. Shutting down every agent at once needs two administrators to agree, so no single mistake can trigger it.

Coming soon

Every agent will answer to a person.

A person carries a passport. An AI agent carries an NHID. Next, AgentID will connect to the system your company already uses for staff logins, such as Okta or Microsoft Entra ID, and link every agent to the person responsible for it.

When that person leaves, all of their agents are paused at once. Your own rules then decide what happens next: hand the agents to a successor, with a clear record of the handover, or cancel their IDs so they can never be used again.

Agent ID
AGT-0042
Active · Expires in 10 minutes
Tied to
Responsible person
Manoj Arora

Approved what this agent can do. Can switch it off in one click.

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Coming Q4 2026

A risk score for every AI agent

AgentID will give every agent a posture score: one simple rating of how risky it is, based on how it is set up and what it can reach. You will see at a glance which agents to fix first.

WHAT COMES NEXT

Start with AI agents. Then everything else.

The same kind of ID works for an AI agent, a robot or a drone. AgentID is the first product built on ArkionID. MachineID, for robots, devices and other machines, is being built now.

See it on AI agents like yours.