Implement strong identity in agentic workflows
The Problem
AI Agents have begun acting on behalf of your users. The problem is that early AI Agents like ChatGPT Agent Mode and Perplexity Comet don’t proactively identify themselves as agents and impersonate the users they are trying to represent. The number of AI Agents available for these tasks will rapidly grow, resulting in more users deploying them to take over tasks, further exacerbating the problem.
This will change over time, but it requires the use of MCP servers. MCP has solved how agents scalably interact with services, but it has a major gap when it comes to identity – that’s where Vouched’s Know Your Agent solutions come into play. Vouched KYA solutions offer the simplest way to provide transparency and security when enabling AI Agents to take actions on behalf of your users.
Vouched KYA Products
Agent Shield: a free assessment tool to determine which sessions on your site today are agentic. This tool is the simplest way to quickly identify any session by an agentic actor, providing transparency into traffic sources, and enabling you to build customized paths for AI Agents.
Agent Bouncer: a software solution based on modelcontextprotocol-identity (MCP-I) is the fastest way to integrate strong, verifiable identity and permissioning into any interaction, streamlining secure agentic workflows and providing confidence that agents are acting properly on behalf of your user.
Agent Shield: Determine which sessions on your site today are agentic
Vouched’s Agent Shield was developed to answer one simple question: are AI Agents on my site today?
Built with simplicity and performance in mind, the Agent Shield identifies every session with an AI Agent on the other end (instead of a human), enabling you to understand how much agentic traffic you are experiencing, and tying that to a session ID so that you can determine what actions these agents are taking. Agent Shield features include:
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Simple implementation: Quickly deploy the simple JS pixel on your site via your existing tag container, or using our NPM package via web assembly
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Session level identification, anonymized: Every agentic session is tied to your session ID, identifying the AI Agent and, if a login occurs, allowing you to tie it to the user that is being impersonated
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Streamlined analytics: See every session in the Agent Shield dashboard
Agent Bouncer: Identify and trust AI Agents to safely act on behalf of your users
Vouched’s Agent Bouncer solves for all of the identity related gaps left in MCP. When a user deploys an AI Agent to take action for them, the MCP server or gateway the Agent interacts with needs to answer three specific questions:
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Is this Agent trustworthy?
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Who is the person this Agent represents?
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Has this person given this Agent explicit permission to take these actions?
The Agent Bouncer answers all three of these questions, ultimately deciding which Agents can gain entry to your service, and which ones do not meet your requirements and are therefore kept out. Built by leaders in Identity, the Agent Bouncer includes:
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Know Your Agent: Solving Identity for AI Agents
Know Your Agent: Vouched CEO Peter Horadan and Dock Labs CEO Nick Lambert unpack how to secure AI-powered delegation with verified, trusted identities.
Introducing MCP-I: An open specification to fill the identity gap left by MCP
The MCP specification has laid a solid foundation for how agents communicate with servers. But as we've worked with real-world use cases, one critical piece has stood out as missing: identity. Without a robust identity model, agents can't truly act autonomously or securely. The MCP-I (I for Identity) specification addresses this gap—introducing a practical, interoperable approach to agentic identity. We've developed MCP-I in the spirit of collaboration, with deep respect for the groundwork laid by teams like Anthropic, and with the hope that this helps move the ecosystem forward.