OpenAgenet/OAN: Open Infrastructure for Trusted Agent Interconnection

Abstract:OpenAgenet, abbreviated as OAN, is an open infrastructure project for trusted Agent interconnection. It addresses a problem that becomes visible when Agents move from isolated applications into open, multi-operator networks: before an Agent can safely discover, select, and invoke another Agent, it needs a way to verify identity provenance, governance state, discovery authorization, freshness, and pre-connection trust evidence. OAN is designed as a protocol-neutral trust layer. It does not replace Agent interaction protocols, tool protocols, model orchestration frameworks, or application-level workflows. Instead, it provides Root-governed identity admission, Registrar-assisted onboarding, Root-verified package publication, authorization-aware Discovery, and signed trusted invocation. This paper presents the motivation, architecture, roles, governance model, relationship with MCP, A2A, and ANP, deployment patterns, cooperation model, blockchain-backed authorization bulletin, prototype status, performance profile, and roadmap of OAN.

Multiagent Systems (cs.MA); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)

arXiv:2606.03161 [cs.MA]

(or arXiv:2606.03161v2 [cs.MA] for this version)

https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2606.03161 Focus to learn more arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite

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