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Accountability has to spread
The risk from autonomous agents does not sit inside the frontier labs. Agents and their subagents already run on many machines across many organizations, so accountability cannot be something the frontier labs bolt on for us. It has to be local-first and portable, installed where the agent runs, and checkable by strangers.
Capability Cards: Proving What an Agent Can Do, Not Just What It Says
Descriptor formats like A2A's AgentCard tell you what an agent claims it can do. None of them tell you whether the claim is bound to a key you trust, or whether the agent's actual behavior matches. Here is the arc we shipped to close that gap: a predicate registry, signed capability cards, per-actor signing that makes an agent's identity provable, revocation, and the same verdict in the browser as on the command line.
Introducing Zerker Labs: the trust layer for the agentic economy
Treeship is the first product from Zerker Labs, an applied AI lab building the trust and verification layer for AI agents. Our thesis is simple: the bottleneck is no longer capability. It is trust.
A2A Makes Agents Interoperable. Treeship Makes That Interoperability Trustworthy.
Google's Agent2Agent protocol gives every agent a way to talk to every other agent. It does not give you a way to verify what any of them actually did. Here is how @treeship/a2a closes that gap, with worked examples you can run end-to-end.
The Key Management Nightmare Hiding Inside Agent Attestation
Teams adopting cryptographic attestation for agents keep hitting the same wall: one keypair per agent sounds right until you have forty agents and no coherent governance. Here's the model that actually works.
The Case for Portable Trust
Why trust artifacts need to travel with the work, not stay locked in the platform that produced them.
Why Agent Actions Need Receipts
When a human takes an action, there's context: intent, memory, accountability. When an agent takes an action, there's just a log line. That asymmetry is the problem Treeship solves.