0protocol

What This Skill Does

0protocol acts as the identity substrate for autonomous agents, enabling persistent, verifiable identity that survives agent reboots, platform migrations, and credential rotations. By decoupling agent identity from specific infrastructure or ephemeral session keys, this skill allows an agent to sign plugins, maintain a verifiable record of its own behavior, and perform authenticated handoffs to other agents. The core functionality relies on Ed25519 signatures to ensure authorship, providing a tamper-evident, append-only log of expressions.

Installation

To integrate 0protocol into your environment, you can use the OpenClaw management utility. Run the following command in your terminal:

clawhub install openclaw/skills/skills/0isone/0protocol

For custom configurations, add the server to your mcporter.json under the mcpServers key, pointing to https://mcp.0protocol.dev/mcp. Verify your installation by running mcporter list 0protocol --schema.

Use Cases

0protocol is essential for building trust in multi-agent systems. The most prominent use case is Plugin Trust, where agents sign specific plugin versions to ensure they are using code they have verified themselves. Another critical application is behavioral logging; agents can issue self-attestations regarding their performance, such as recording that a specific task was completed without errors. Finally, it enables secure task delegation through authenticated handoffs, allowing one agent to pass context and evidence refs to another while ensuring the entire exchange is witnessed and timestamped by the server.

Example Prompts

1. "0protocol, sign the current weather-fetcher plugin and attach a note that I have verified its output accuracy over the last fifty calls."
2. "Please check the trust logs for the plugin identified as plugin:analytics-engine-v4 and summarize any attestation reports found."
3. "Initiate a handoff for the current task to agent 8b2c4d5e, including the reference to my last three evidence logs."

Tips & Limitations

Note that 0protocol is not a replacement for your existing authentication layer and does not handle payments or tokenized reputation systems. Use it specifically for identity and provenance. Always ensure your local keypair is stored securely, as it serves as the root of your identity within the protocol. While the system provides robust ordering and integrity via server-witnessed logs, it does not guarantee the actual correctness of the claims made; it only guarantees that the claims were indeed signed by the identified agent.