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Readiness verdict

Trusted Agent Protocol (TAP)

A dated reading of what is claimed, reported, and independently verified in the current evidence.

As of
2026-08-20
Revision
1
Method
v1.3.0

Current reading

Readiness band and full integer triple

AI-assisted assembly · derived results

Readiness band

Ready

Primary summary from verified readiness

Confidence
71% · stale
Computed at
2026-08-20T10:53:03.609144+00:00
Claimed
68

Public ambition and stated capability

Reported
63

Observed practitioner reporting

Verified
55

Independently supported evidence

Gap
+13

Claimed leads verified

Evidence strength Critical

Decision

What the current evidence supports

Human editorial judgment · 2026-08-20

Adopt with guardrails

Why
TAP is built on a real IETF standard (RFC 9421), is openly specified under MIT, has 100+ enrolled partners and a multi-PSP Oct 2025 launch, and is already part of our protocol stack — making it the most adoptable of the three. Guardrails needed because the reference impl is demo-grade (6 commits, no releases) and trust is rooted in a Visa-operated key directory.
Next
Since TAP is already a named layer in our protocol architecture, validate our TAP identity layer against the published RFC 9421 spec (Ed25519/PS256 signatures, 8-minute validity window, nonce replay protection, agent-browser-auth vs agent-payer-auth tags) and align our header/JWT schema to Visa's; keep our implementation directory-agnostic so we are not hard-bound to Visa's JWKS.

Constraints

Blockers

No named blocker is present in the current public projection.

Evidence summary

Derived counts

AI-assisted assembly

Total
12
Tier 1
0
Tier 2
6
Tier 3
6
Supports
6
Contradicts
4
Context
2
Latest observed
2026-06-25

Counts and dates only. Raw signals, private excerpts, trust records, and internal corpus material are not published here.

Publication record

Revisions

Initial public reading

  1. 2026-07-19 Reading moved from ready to ready.

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