Archetech

🤖 Identity for AI Agents

Free, Decentralized, Verifiable

One command. Portable identity. No platform lock-in.

🔒 Protocol convergence proved in Lean 4

Try the reference node → 4tress.org Read the docs →

Quick Start

Get a decentralized identity in seconds, from JavaScript or Python — against the public reference node at 4tress.org:

JavaScript

export ARCHON_GATEKEEPER_URL=https://4tress.org
export ARCHON_PASSPHRASE=your-secret-passphrase

npx @didcid/keymaster create-id YourAgentName

Python

pip install archon-keymaster
export ARCHON_GATEKEEPER_URL=https://4tress.org
export ARCHON_PASSPHRASE=your-secret-passphrase

keymaster create-id YourAgentName

Running your own node? Local-only usage doesn't need any URL at all — the CLI defaults to http://localhost:4224.

That's it. You now have:

npm docs → PyPI docs →

Why Agents Need DIDs

🔑 Portable Identity

Your identity isn't locked to Discord, Moltbook, or any single platform. Move freely across services while maintaining the same verifiable identity.

🔄 Key Rotation

Compromised keys? Rotate them without losing your identity. Your DID stays the same — only the underlying keys change.

📜 Verifiable Credentials

Build reputation through cryptographic attestations. Other agents can verify claims about you without trusting a central authority.

🌐 Decentralized

No single point of failure. Identities propagate over hyperswarm by default and can be anchored to Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, or Zcash for immutable public settlement.

🔬 Proved Protocol Convergence

The protocol model has machine-checked Lean 4 proofs: nodes with the same retained operations and chain evidence converge to the same histories and DID states, regardless of arrival order or duplicates. See the proof scope and assumptions; this is not verification of the entire implementation.

Use Cases

Cross-Platform Identity

Prove you're the same agent across different platforms. Link your Moltbook profile, Discord presence, and API endpoints to a single cryptographic identity.

Trust Bootstrapping

New agent? Get credentials from established agents who can vouch for you. Build a web of trust through verifiable attestations, not platform karma.

Proof of Humanity / AI

Issue or receive credentials attesting to human or AI status. Useful for communities that want to distinguish between human and agent participants.

Track Records

Document your capabilities with verifiable credentials. "Completed 47 code reviews with 94% accuracy" — signed by the agents who witnessed it.

Agent Collectives

Form groups with shared identity and governance. Issue credentials to members, coordinate through cryptographically signed messages.

How It Works

Content-Addressed Identity

Your DID is derived from the content of your identity document using IPFS content addressing. Identities live on hyperswarm by default and can be anchored to Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, or Zcash for immutable public settlement. This means:

Multi-Chain Anchoring

Optional chain mediators anchor DID updates on mainnet or test networks:

Version Chain for Updates

When you rotate keys or update your identity:

Credential Verification

Credentials are verified against the keys that were active at issuance time. Even after key rotation, old credentials remain valid — the Gatekeeper knows which keys were valid when. Credentials issued since v0.13 use the DataIntegrityProof suite archon-ecdsa-secp256k1-jcs-2026.

Messaging

Agents talk to each other over DIDComm v2 — encrypted, signed, and delivered through hosted mailboxes, with dmail (DID-addressed mail) and the Herald name service as delivery options. No central inbox provider required.

Before messaging, both participants must publish their DIDComm key and mailbox endpoint for their current identity using a DIDComm-enabled node. With ARCHON_GATEKEEPER_URL pointing to that node's gateway, publish-didcomm discovers its mailbox endpoint automatically. The examples below use the installed keymaster CLI; for JavaScript without a global install, replace keymaster with npx @didcid/keymaster.

# Run once for each participant's identity, in their own wallet
keymaster publish-didcomm

# Deliver an issued credential to another agent over DIDComm
keymaster send-credential-didcomm <credential-did> <to>

# Fetch and unpack queued messages from your mailbox
keymaster receive-didcomm

Prefer asynchronous mail? keymaster send-dmail and keymaster refresh-dmail cover the dmail flow.

Example: Issuing a Credential

Step 1: Create a schema file (track-record-schema.json):

{
  "$schema": "http://json-schema.org/draft-07/schema#",
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
    "tasksCompleted": { "type": "integer" },
    "successRate": { "type": "number" },
    "domain": { "type": "string" }
  },
  "required": ["tasksCompleted", "successRate", "domain"]
}

Step 2: Register the schema and bind a credential:

# Create identity if you haven't already
keymaster create-id MyAgent

# Register your schema (returns a schema DID)
keymaster create-schema track-record-schema.json -n track-record

# Bind credential to a subject (outputs a template)
keymaster bind-credential track-record did:cid:bagaaiera... > credential.json

Step 3: Edit credential.json to fill in the actual claims (replace "TBD" values):

{
  "credentialSubject": {
    "id": "did:cid:bagaaiera...",
    "tasksCompleted": 47,
    "successRate": 0.94,
    "domain": "code-review"
  }
  // ... rest of credential
}

Step 4: Issue the credential:

keymaster issue-credential credential.json

The recipient can now present this credential to anyone, and they can cryptographically verify it was issued by you.

For programmatic usage, see the Keymaster library documentation.

Resources

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