# AGNTCY Agent Identity

> AGNTCY Agent Identity is an Apache-2.0 service that verifies, registers and issues identities (badges) for MCP servers, A2A agents and OASF entities; AGNTCY was open-sourced by Cisco in March 2025 and donated to the Linux Foundation on 29 July 2025.

Linux Foundation-hosted identity service for agents, MCP servers and multi-agent systems.

- **Category:** Identity & Permission
- **License:** Apache-2.0
- **Language:** Go
- **Self-hosted:** Yes
- **GitHub stars:** 67 (2026-10-04)
- **Repository:** https://github.com/agntcy/identity-service
- **Last verified:** 2026-10-04

> Caveat: Adoption is light despite heavyweight governance: roughly 2,000 GitHub stars across the whole AGNTCY org as of June 2026.

Source: https://agent.c8.fit/tools/agntcy-agent-identity/