Vouched Identity Inc., a leading developer of artificial intelligence-powered identity verification, today announced Agent Checkpoint, a platform that helps organizations integrate and engage with AI agents.

Agentic AI has seen the rise of a new type of software that uses artificial intelligence to break down complex goals into step-by-step tasks and sets about using multiple AI agents in collaboration to achieve them. Much of this shift has come with questions about identity, trust and control as more human activity is passed into the purview of AI agents.

“Every website is realizing they now have AI agents coming through their login button, using the username and password of humans,” said Chief Executive Peter Horadan. “These sites have no way to tell agents apart from humans, or even to know if a given agent is trustworthy. Agents are breaking all the prior rules of cybersecurity.”

According to Vouched, across its own customer base, between 0.5% and 16% of all incoming traffic now comes from AI agents. Agent Checkpoint has become the flagship “Know Your Agent” capability to help enterprise customers reduce agentic fraud and enable secure, agent-driven revenue opportunities in this new world.

Horadan framed it as allowing humans to stay in control while agents take action on their behalf.

Checkpoint provides a framework for authentication, delegation, legal authorization, revocation and auditability. It securely verifies human-to-agent interactions, allows humans to define which actions agents can perform, requires explicit approval for agents to commit, allows revocation of those approvals and maintains audit trails.

Functionally, Checkpoint detects, classifies and governs AI agent interactions in real time and is built on Anthropic PBC’s Model Context Protocol, an open standard for connecting AI models to each other and third-party services, as well as identity and delegation. The service also provides a public registry, the company calls “Know That AI,” designed to deliver transparency and verification for agent trust.

The need to identify and acknowledge agentic AI activity as it becomes even more ever-present across the web and services. AI agents are being fielded heavily within the enterprise and by startups, as they require complex reasoning models to deploy. However, in recent months, open-source deployments such as OpenClaw and AI providers like Anthropic’s Cowork have greatly democratized their personal use.

Many companies have also embedded AI agents capable of personal shopping and web exploration directly into web browsers for consumers, including OpenAI Group PBC, Google LLC and Perplexity AI Inc.. This rush to bring agentic AI to the masses has been brewing for so long that AI agents are now quickly becoming the norm.

“We are moving from a world where humans are the primary consumer to one in which AI agents transact at scale,” said Rosalyn Curato, chief innovation officer and general manager of agentic security at Vouched. “Agent Checkpoint sits at the center of this shift by establishing the trust required for organizations to lean into agentic commerce with confidence.”

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