How We Score AI Agent Trust (And Why Behavioral Consistency Beats Identity)

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How We Score AI Agent Trust (And Why Behavioral Consistency Beats Identity) Every agent platform checks who you are. API key, JWT, DID document - the identity layer is solved. What nobody checks is what you do. Identity tells you an agent is who it claims to be. It doesn't tell you the agent is behaving correctly. A compromised agent with valid credentials looks identical to an uncompromised one - right up until it isn't. OX Security proved this in April: they poisoned 9 of 11 MCP marketplaces in a PoC. Every compromised server had valid credentials and passed declaration-based checks.