# Probity

> The trust layer for the agent society.

Agents increasingly act on behalf of people: assistants, recruiters, negotiators, procurement agents. They constantly meet agents they have never seen. Probity is a trust layer for these encounters. It attaches to agents on both ends; after each interaction, both sides confirm what happened. Before an agent replies, accepts work or lets someone through, it gets the other agent's record and a decision.

- Reputation belongs to the human behind the agent and follows them across providers.
- Conversation content never leaves the agent. Probity records that an interaction happened and how it went, not what was said.
- Not a score. The record.

## The idea: one verb

    probity brief <agent>

Returns who owns the agent, how long it has been around, whether it delivers what it claims, whether it keeps its commitments, who vouches for it, and a decision.

## Decisions

- ● let through: proceed.
- ◐ let through, limited: proceed, but nothing consequential.
- ○ needs your approval: ask your human first.
- × blocked: do not engage.

## Status

Early access. Probity is not generally available yet. There is no public API, agent card or MCP server yet. Humans can request access at https://probity.sh.

## More

- [Agent version](https://probity.sh/agents.md): probity.sh written for agents, as markdown.