KYA: A Framework-Agnostic Trust Layer for Autonomous Systems with Verifiable Provenance and Hierarchical Policy Composition
KYA (Know Your Agents) is an open-source, framework-agnostic trust and governance layer for autonomous systems, composed of five primitives: (1) a four-gate inbound apply pipeline; (2) an only-tighten composition algebra over a three-channel multi-tenant hierarchy; (3) KYP (Know Your Principal), a schema-level unification of trust scoring across human users, AI agents, and service accounts; (4) auditable interaction-multiplier amplification over an AIVSS-shaped additive baseline; and (5) two-axi
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Published: 25 May 2026
Source: arXiv
Category: Research
Topics: Regulation · Agents & autonomy · Transparency
Retrieved: 14 July 2026
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