Beyond DNS: Unlocking the Internet of AI Agents via the NANDA Index and Verified AgentFacts

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2507.14263v1
• Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2025 13:40:46 GMT
• Title: Beyond DNS: Unlocking the Internet of AI Agents via the NANDA Index and Verified AgentFacts
• Authors: Ramesh Raskar, Pradyumna Chari, John Zinky, Mahesh Lambe, Jared James Grogan, Sichao Wang, Rajesh Ranjan, Rekha Singhal, Shailja Gupta, Robert Lincourt, Raghu Bala, Aditi Joshi, Abhishek Singh, Ayush Chopra, Dimitris Stripelis, Bhuwan B, Sumit Kumar, Maria Gorskikh,
• Abstract summary: We describe the NANDA index architecture, which we envision as a means for discoverability, identifiability and authentication in the internet of AI agents.<n>We present an architecture where a minimal lean index resolves to dynamic, cryptographically verifiable AgentFacts.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: The Internet is poised to host billions to trillions of autonomous AI agents that negotiate, delegate, and migrate in milliseconds and workloads that will strain DNS-centred identity and discovery. In this paper, we describe the NANDA index architecture, which we envision as a means for discoverability, identifiability and authentication in the internet of AI agents. We present an architecture where a minimal lean index resolves to dynamic, cryptographically verifiable AgentFacts that supports multi-endpoint routing, load balancing, privacy-preserving access, and credentialed capability assertions. Our architecture design delivers five concrete guarantees: (1) A quilt-like index proposal that supports both NANDA-native agents as well as third party agents being discoverable via the index, (2) rapid global resolution for newly spawned AI agents, (3) sub-second revocation and key rotation, (4) schema-validated capability assertions, and (5) privacy-preserving discovery across organisational boundaries via verifiable, least-disclosure queries. We formalize the AgentFacts schema, specify a CRDT-based update protocol, and prototype adaptive resolvers. The result is a lightweight, horizontally scalable foundation that unlocks secure, trust-aware collaboration for the next generation of the Internet of AI agents, without abandoning existing web infrastructure.

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