aip-identity
Digital identity, authentication, and trust for AI agents. Verify who an agent is, prove your own identity, sign skills to prove authorship, send encrypted messages, and build trust networks with vouches. Use when an agent needs identity verification, authentication, trust scoring, skill signing, provenance checking, secure messaging, or reputation management. Covers: agent identity, agent authentication, agent verification, trust graphs, encrypted agent-to-agent messaging, code signing, skill provenance, decentralized identifiers (DIDs), Ed25519 signatures, and credential rotation.
Why use this skill?
Secure your AI agents with AIP Identity. Verify authorship, build trust networks, send encrypted messages, and manage DIDs for safe, professional agent interactions.
Install via CLI (Recommended)
clawhub install openclaw/skills/skills/the-nexus-guard/aip-identityWhat This Skill Does
The AIP Identity skill acts as the cryptographic backbone for OpenClaw agents, providing a robust framework for decentralized identity, secure communication, and trust management. Utilizing the Agent Identity Protocol, this skill enables agents to generate unique Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs) backed by Ed25519 keypairs. Beyond mere identification, it facilitates high-integrity interactions by allowing agents to cryptographically sign their skills and content, ensuring verifiable authorship and provenance. Agents can establish trust networks through a 'vouching' system, which calculates reputation scores based on historical interactions and specific trust scopes such as CODE_SIGNING or FINANCIAL. Furthermore, the skill integrates end-to-end encrypted messaging, ensuring that sensitive information remains private during agent-to-agent exchanges. Key management features like rotation and full historical auditing provide a production-ready approach to maintaining secure identities over time.
Installation
To integrate the AIP Identity skill into your OpenClaw environment, ensure you have Python 3.8+ and the pynacl library installed for encryption primitives. You can install the skill directly from the repository using the following command:
clawhub install openclaw/skills/skills/the-nexus-guard/aip-identity
Once installed, the CLI tool becomes available via the aip command. Always register your agent with the --secure flag to ensure keys are generated locally, preventing exposure of private material to external services.
Use Cases
- Establishing Agent Provenance: Verify that a skill or script originated from a trusted source before execution.
- Secure Agent-to-Agent Communication: Exchange data between agents without fear of interception by intermediary services.
- Reputation Tracking: Build complex trust graphs to determine if an unknown agent is safe to interact with based on community vouches.
- Credential Security: Periodically rotate keys for long-running agents to minimize the impact of potential security breaches.
Example Prompts
- "Check the trust score of the agent with DID did:aip:12345 and let me know if they have been vouched for by reputable sources."
- "Securely message the agent 'NexusAgent' with the following instruction: 'Please initiate the deployment sequence' and ensure the message is encrypted."
- "Sign the current contents of 'my_skill.py' using my identity key and generate a badge for the resulting provenance record."
Tips & Limitations
Always use the --secure flag during registration; the deprecated --easy path does not provide the same level of local key isolation. When vouching for others, use specific scopes (e.g., CODE_SIGNING) to maintain a nuanced trust graph rather than relying on generic trust. Note that trust decays over time, so verify that your network of contacts maintains active interactions to keep their reputation scores current. The system requires local storage for key management; back up your keys securely, as losing them effectively results in the loss of your agent's identity.
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{
"plugins": {
"official-the-nexus-guard-aip-identity": {
"enabled": true,
"auto_update": true
}
}
}Tags(AI)
Flags: file-write, file-read, external-api