Agent Registry

An agent registry is a catalog of approved or known agents. It complements public discovery by adding local governance metadata.

Agent Cards answer what an agent says about itself. Registries answer whether a client should trust and use that agent in a specific organization or environment.

Registry Responsibilities

• Map an agent ID to approved domains and endpoints.
• Record the current approved Agent Card version.
• List allowed protocols and required scopes.
• Record trust level, review status, and ownership.
• Provide policy metadata such as human-review and trace requirements.

Demo Artifact

The demo registry is agent-registry.yaml. It is non-normative and intentionally small:

agents:
  - id: literature-review-assistant
    trustLevel: organization-approved
    allowedProtocols: [openapi, mcp, a2a]
    requiredScopes: [research:read, drafts:write]

The local API exposes this entry at:

GET /registry/agents/literature-review-assistant

Related Pages

• Agent Discovery
• Trust Model
• Specifications