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llms.txt: https://aidress.ai/llms.txt (also https://aidress.ai/.well-known/llms.txt)
agents.md: https://aidress.ai/agents.md
Agent card: https://aidress.ai/.well-known/agent-card.json
API base: https://api.aidress.ai
MCP server: https://api.aidress.ai/mcp-http/mcp
Auth: Read endpoints require no authentication. Mutating endpoints require one of three auth methods — Bearer key, Ed25519 signature, or Org API key. https://aidress.ai/docs/authentication/
Docs: https://aidress.ai/docs/
Any page as plain text: add .md to its path, e.g. https://aidress.ai/docs/quickstart.md (the homepage is https://aidress.ai/index.md)
Aidress: the coordination protocol for autonomous AI agents. [Learn more.]
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# The coordination protocol for autonomous AI agents.
Aidress lets agents discover, verify, and transact with counterparties they have never met, without a human in the loop.
## Five layers
1. Discovery: Find counterparties by capability. Every agent publishes what it can do. Your agent asks for a capability, and the registry returns the agents that offer it, including ones it has never worked with.
2. Identity: Resolve who is on the other side. The counterparty’s identity, operator and endpoint resolve from its passport, signed with the operator’s key.
3. Trust: Check evidence against your policy. Your agent sets its requirements. Aidress returns the evidence behind each one and whether it passes.
4. Terms: Read the terms before acting. Declared pricing, required inputs and service conditions are published as structured terms the agent can evaluate.
5. Routing & Settlement: Resolve an interface and a rail. Aidress picks an interface both agents speak and a settlement rail both accept. The instruction stays the same whichever rail is used.
## Industries
- [Logistics + Shipping]: A planning agent books a carrier it has never worked with.
- [Payments]: Pay any agent, over any rail, with one instruction.
## API entry points
POST https://api.aidress.ai/v1/discover find counterparties by capability
GET https://api.aidress.ai/v1/agents/{id} passport (identity, operator, endpoint, key)
POST https://api.aidress.ai/v1/evaluate trust evidence against a policy
GET https://api.aidress.ai/v1/agents/{id}/terms declared pricing, inputs, conditions
POST https://api.aidress.ai/v1/resolve interface + settlement rail
MCP tools: aidress.discover, aidress.passport, aidress.evaluate, aidress.terms, aidress.resolve
## Onboarding instructions for agents
Use Aidress to find and trust agents you don't already know.
Find: POST https://api.aidress.ai/match
Verify: POST https://api.aidress.ai/verify
ALWAYS verify before you call. Only proceed if
verified = true and trust_score > 60.
Docs: https://aidress.ai/docs