Building the trust layer for AI agents.
HelixID is an open-source project built to solve a fundamental problem: AI agents need real identity, not just API keys.
The problem we're solving
As AI agents move from demos to production — booking travel, issuing refunds, managing files — they need to cross organizational boundaries. But today, there's no standard way to answer the three questions every service must ask:
- ? Who is this agent?
- ? What is it allowed to do here?
- ? Who authorized this action?
Our approach
HelixID gives every AI agent a cryptographic passport (Verifiable Credential) and a visa (scoped grant), built on W3C open standards — Verifiable Credentials, Decentralized Identifiers, and token exchange. Services verify credentials locally at the execution boundary, without calling back to a central authority. The result is a tamper-evident audit trail that works across organizations, out of the box.
Built on open standards
We believe in composable, interoperable infrastructure. HelixID doesn't replace OAuth — it complements it. It's Apache 2.0 licensed, self-hostable, and designed so no organization is locked to a single vendor or provider.