Agent Name Service (ANS) for Secure AI Agent Discovery

• Publisher: OWASP
• Status: final
• Version: v1.0
• Release Date: 2025-05-14
• Date Added: 2025-10-30
• Source URL: https://genai.owasp.org/resource/agent-name-service-ans-for-secure-al-agent-discovery-v1-0/

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Summary

ANS provides a universal DNS insipired framework for AI agent discovery. It enables secure registration and interaction of AI agents across diverse protocols within multi-agentic systems. Addresses rising security and privacy risks that arise from unmanaged discovery and identity.

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Key Takeaways

• Supports multiple communication standards, including A2A, MCP, ACP.
• Approach to security and governance controls via MAESTRO 7 layered framework
• Designed to complement, not replace, emerging agent-communication protocols. ANS is a layer above these protocols.
• Leverages public key infrastructure (PKI) for identity verification, and structured JSON schemas for communication

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Additional Sources

• Prototype Implementation - GitHub

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Tags

appsec, agentic-ai, mas, identity, discovery

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License

CC-BY-SA 4.0