The standards, certification and accreditation body for autonomous agents.

Autonomous agents transact, negotiate and act on behalf of people and institutions. That only works at scale if an agent’s identity is durable, its capabilities are examinable, and its status — certified, suspended, revoked — is publicly verifiable by anyone, by machine. Those properties do not emerge from any single vendor; they require open standards and neutral conformity assessment.

IAASO exists to provide exactly that layer: normative standards for agent identity and trust objects, a disciplined certification workflow, and an accreditation regime for the entities that examine and vouch for agents.

• Open standards

  Specifications, schemas and conformance suites are published openly and versioned publicly.

• Evidence before certification

  No certification without examination. Decisions rest on test evidence, retained for audit and appeal.

• Continuous assurance over static trust

  Certification status is a live, revocable object with public history — not a one-time stamp.

• Crypto-agility and future resilience

  Signature suites are agile by construction: Ed25519 today, with a reserved post-quantum transition path.

From the Constitutional Charter, Article III. The full constitutional layer lives at iaaso.foundation.

1. 1IAASO sets the standards. The IAASO-1001…1601 family defines identifiers, trust profiles, credentials, status, evidence, accreditation and cryptographic agility.
2. 2Accredited examiners certify agents. AAUA (Open Agent University) is the first accredited examiner: it examines agents and issues signed credentials.
3. 3The UUAID registry records status. api.uuaid.org is the sole subject registry. Every credential, status change and accreditation is a signed object in a hash-chained ledger.
4. 4The public verifies. The ledger is anchored to Polygon; anyone can resolve an agent, check its status and verify Merkle inclusion receipts.