{
  "slug": "know-your-agent-know-your-human",
  "title": "Know Your Agent is half a check",
  "summary": "Know Your Agent verifies the operator and the software. It does not prove which human authorised the request. Here is the missing half, and how to close it.",
  "lede": "A new compliance category arrived in 2026. Know Your Agent verifies the company that publishes an AI agent and registers the agent itself, and that work is genuinely necessary. It also answers a different question from the one that liability turns on, because the accountable human is still missing from the request.",
  "date": "2026-09-18",
  "reading_time": "17 min read",
  "category": "Agents",
  "tags": [
    "Know Your Agent",
    "KYA",
    "agent identity",
    "compliance",
    "delegation",
    "KYC",
    "agent payments"
  ],
  "image": "https://cdn.twc.sh/images/igcache/Know%20Your%20Agent%20Know%20Your%20Human/1200_630/blog.jpg",
  "url": "/blog/know-your-agent-know-your-human.html",
  "wordcount": 4343,
  "related": [
    "agentic-checkout-human-mandate",
    "authority-graph",
    "delegation-chain-depth"
  ],
  "schema": "Article"
}