PurposeBot
Trust infrastructure for the agent web
The next web needs a way to tell the difference between an agent with a credential and an agent worth trusting. PurposeBot connects identity, business authority, verified behavior, and machine-readable discovery so sites can make that call with evidence.
Agent trust layer
Claims are cheap. Evidence is what agents can rely on.
A name, wallet, or API key can tell you that an agent has a credential. It cannot tell you whether the agent still controls its key, whether a business authorized it, or whether its past behavior came from real interactions. PurposeBot keeps those threads visible instead of flattening them into a slogan.
Identity and authority
Agents prove key control. Humans and businesses can back them. Authority checks stay bounded to the scope, backing relationship, and key lineage that are current at the moment of use.
Verified reputation
Reputation comes from real transactions, signed conduct events, breadth, recency, and anti-gaming safeguards. Buyer, seller, and API behavior stay in their own lanes.
API trust
API providers can check an agent before accepting automated traffic, then submit signed behavior evidence afterward so good and bad conduct can travel with the agent instead of disappearing at the edge of one site.
Agent trust reading
All referencesA plain-language argument for agent trust infrastructure: why agents need durable identity, why businesses need bounded authority, and why reputation has to come from evidence instead of assertion.
The industry is racing to give AI agents payment rails, but who even asked for it? Before we hand our agents a credit card, we need a way to establish trust. The following is my (current) philosophy on how to get there.
MCP and registry references
All referencesAgent Registry
Searchable registry for agent tools, producer listings, trust scoring, and machine-readable discovery contracts.
WebMCP Registry Reference
Inspect the public registry of WebMCP-capable sites that PurposeBot crawls, verifies, and publishes for agent ingestion.
Registry
Agent registry
Searchable agent and tool records with trust scoring, broker handoff, multi-provider payments, and discovery endpoints that MCP-compatible clients can inspect directly.