{
  "id": "kya.watch",
  "protocol": "kya",
  "layer": "identity-trust",
  "role": "platform",
  "status": "optional",
  "title": "Watch Know-Your-Agent for a spec",
  "description": "Visa, Mastercard and Ant International will explore common principles, building on the SAFR framework, via BuildFin.ai; each has its own protocol (TAP, Verifiable Intent, Agentic Mobile Protocol). No spec yet.",
  "goal": "Signals where agent onboarding across networks is heading.",
  "note": "Resolved: announcement only. It names Visa TAP, Mastercard Verifiable Intent and Ant's Agentic Mobile Protocol as inputs. No KYA spec is linked from the official announcement as of 2026-10-19.",
  "how_to_implement": {
    "steps": [
      "Implement the network protocols that exist today (Visa TAP, Web Bot Auth).",
      "Re-check the backers' newsrooms for a spec."
    ]
  },
  "resources": [
    {
      "label": "Ant International, Mastercard and Visa on Know-Your-Agent",
      "url": "https://www.ant-intl.com/en/news/detail/?id=ant-international-mastercard-and-visa-initiate-collaboration-on-know-your-agent-interoperability-to-scale-agentic-commerce",
      "type": "announcement",
      "publisher": "Ant International"
    }
  ],
  "audit": {
    "method": "manual",
    "automatable": false,
    "human": "Check for a published spec on the backers' official sites."
  },
  "how_to_verify": "Check for a published spec on the backers' official sites.",
  "artifacts": [],
  "depends_on": [],
  "status_note": "Resolved: announcement only. It names Visa TAP, Mastercard Verifiable Intent and Ant's Agentic Mobile Protocol as inputs. No KYA spec is linked from the official announcement as of 2026-10-19.",
  "verified": true,
  "slug": "kya-watch",
  "category": "identity-trust",
  "url": "https://vreeman.ai/commerce/checklist#kya.watch",
  "updated": "2026-10-19",
  "sources": [
    {
      "label": "Ant International, Mastercard and Visa on Know-Your-Agent",
      "url": "https://www.ant-intl.com/en/news/detail/?id=ant-international-mastercard-and-visa-initiate-collaboration-on-know-your-agent-interoperability-to-scale-agentic-commerce",
      "type": "announcement",
      "publisher": "Ant International"
    }
  ],
  "related_slugs": []
}