ATLAS — buyer-facing verification for AI agents

ATLAS answers a question the engineering-side frameworks deliberately don't: how does a buyer, a user, or a regulator — someone who didn't build the agent — decide whether to trust it?

The lineage is the verification lineage of commerce. FDA approval. UL certification. Certificate transparency. SOC 2 reports. Each works by making a credible, external assertion about an artifact that the buyer can check without trusting the seller.

The five components

• Attested capability claims — what the agent can do, signed.
• Third-party audits — independently verifiable, with the auditor's scope made public.
• Public registry — where attestations and audits land, so buyers can look an agent up by ID.
• Incident disclosure — when something goes wrong, the registry records it.
• Revocation — attestations can be withdrawn, audibly, before quietly.

The hard part isn't the components. It's getting the registry trusted enough that buyers actually check it.