A Scalable Trust Discovery Architecture for the Internet of Agents

2026-09-17

AI Summary

为了解决互联网中大量自主代理的可扩展注册、可信识别和能力导向发现的问题，本文提出了一种采用分层分布式设计的信任发现架构。

Abstract

The Internet of Agents is expected to enable large numbers of autonomous agents to discover, verify, and collaborate with each other across heterogeneous platforms. However, current agent protocols mainly address tool invocation and inter-agent communication, leaving scalable agent registration, trustworthy identification, and capability-oriented discovery largely unresolved. To address this, this paper proposes a scalable trust discovery architecture for the Internet of Agents. The proposed architecture adopts a hierarchical and distributed design consisting of three layers: Agent Root for trusted registry governance, Agent Registry for agent registration and metadata publication, and Agent Resolver for distributed capability discovery and trust-aware resolution. The architecture further introduces a registry-suffix-anchored composite identity scheme, which binds an agent native identifier to a trusted registry suffix to generate a globally discoverable identity. It also incorporates a dual-certificate and multi-level authentication mechanism to strengthen identity trust among agents. We implement a prototype and evaluate it through large-scale agent registration and resolution experiments. The prototype achieves an average registration latency of 58ms and an average discovery latency of 25ms, and it supports more than 19,000 registration requests per second and more than 29,000 agent discovery requests per second. These results demonstrate the feasibility of the proposed architecture, providing a practical approach toward scalable and identity-trusted agent ecosystems in the Internet of Agents.

Problem

• Scalable Agent Registration
• Trustworthy Identification
• Capability-Oriented Discovery

Innovation

• Scalable Trust Discovery
• Hierarchical and Distributed Design
• Registry-suffix-anchored Composite Identity
• Dual-certificate and Multi-level Authentication