We Need a Birth Certificate for AI Agents – Here's a Proposal

As more autonomous agents emerge, we’re facing a big problem: there’s no standard way to describe what an agent does, what it needs, or what it claims to be good at.

So I’ve been working on a lightweight open standard, the Agent Definition Schema (ADS). Think of it like a package.json, but for agents.

Article: Why Every AI Agent Will Need a Birth Certificate by 2026

Project site: https://agent-manifest.org GitHub spec: https://github.com/agent-schema/ads-spec

Would love your thoughts, especially around skill validation, security claims, and how this might support future marketplaces or VC-based credentials.