Personal Identity Agent for your Agent

Source: Dev.to

Solving the “AI Agent Trust Problem”

I’m excited to share the Personal Identity Agent (PIA) platform and SDK. AI agents are becoming increasingly powerful, but we still lack a safe, scalable way to delegate real‑world tasks to them. Today, you’re forced into one of two bad options:

• Give agents full access — high risk
• Manually approve every action — no real automation

Neither approach scales.

An Authorization Layer for AI Agents

Think OAuth, but for your digital life. PIA sits between users and agents, enforcing identity, permissions, and policy before any action is taken.

User‑Defined Policies

• Permissions
• Spending limits
• Risk tolerance
• Domain restrictions

How It Works

1. Agents authenticate using an OAuth‑style flow.
2. Before every action, agents call the verification API.
3. An LLM evaluates the request against the user’s policy.
4. Every decision is recorded in a full audit log.

SDK Highlights

• OAuth‑style authorization flow
• Secure token management
• Action verification against user‑defined policies
• Full TypeScript support
• Zero runtime dependencies (≈ 5.9 KB)

The lightweight SDK can be dropped directly into agents, handling the entire authorization layer and providing fine‑grained control without added complexity.

Demo Agents

• Agent 1
• Agent 2
• Agent 3
• File Browser Demo
• Agent 5

Getting Started

npm install @variant96/pia-sdk