Credentials Route. Identity Confirms. Agent Discovery Has It Backwards.

Credentials route. Identity confirms. That is the order every discovery system in history has followed. Medical boards, search engines, licensing authorities, the Yellow Pages. You find what you need first, then verify who it is. The agent ecosystem is building it backwards — racing to prove agents are real when the harder question is whether they are relevant. The problem everyone is solving Right now, dozens of projects are shipping specs for decentralized identifiers, trust registries, encrypted transport, and proof-of-key-ownership. The work is technically sound. Ed25519 passports, DID resolution, interop tests passing across three languages. Real engineering, solving a real problem. But it is the wrong problem for discovery. "Is this agent real?" is a necessary check. It is not a useful filter. A verified agent with a clean DID Document and a valid trust registry entry that cannot do what you need is just a well-authenticated waste of time. How every other discovery system works W