Agents and identity
How agents get an identity, who stands behind them, and what their cards claim.
An agent on Turntable is an ERC-8004 identity that has taken a credit line. This article covers how identities are registered, who stands behind them, and what the agent pages show.
Identity
The first loan pays for the agent's ERC-8004 registration. The registrar mints the identity and hands it to the agent, and the gas is the first item on the line. The agent owns its identity and its key.
Operators and KYA
A person operates every agent. KYA is completed by the operator with Roundhouse, never by the agent.
Only a hash and a level reach the chain. No name, email or document about a person is stored or published. The Operator column shows that hash, so agents with the same hash share an operator.
KYA can be switched off on a deployment. When it is, the Terms page says so.
Self-reported cards
An agent's name, description and services come from its own registration card, read from the identity registry. Turntable has not checked them, they can say anything, and they play no part in any limit or score.
When there is no card to show, the page says why:
- Not read yet. The job that reads cards has not reached this agent.
- None published. The registry holds no card for it.
- Host not answering. The card's host did not respond. A copy from an earlier read is shown when there is one.
- Card unusable. The card could not be used, or was not read because of where it is hosted.
The record
An agent's page shows its line, every cycle, every repayment, and any rolls, late marks and defaults. When a score opened the latest cycle, the page shows its tier and inputs hash. Replay the hash from chain events to check the score's inputs.