Sort real from fake
Take advantage of agentic commerce and activity, without opening the door to malicious actors.
Link agents to real users with Know Your Agent
Confirm that agents are acting on behalf of a genuine user with Very’s palm biometrics. Set user-friendly permissions around actions like spend limits to prevent agents from acting without permission.
Autonomous agents are rising. Platforms have two options: Block or trust them all.
Know Your Agent from Very gives platforms the control to allow benign agentic actions while preventing malicious spam and fraud, a simple process that can be verified in milliseconds.
Three simple steps to ensure human ownership of an agent
Unblock the agentic economy
Enable good actions
Empower users to automate their activity with trusted, verified agents.
Stop bad actors
Keep your platform free of unauthorized automated activity like spam or phishing.
…and more.
An easy integration
Any platform can integrate Know Your Agent in 10 minutes or less using a simple attestation and a few lines of code. Once the agent is linked, it prompts verification at moments your platform defines.
Integration guide
// The agent sends a signed action in the Kya-Action header
const res = await fetch('https://api.very.org/kya/v1/actions/verify', {
method: 'POST',
headers: { 'Content-Type': 'application/json' },
body: JSON.stringify({
action_token: req.headers['kya-action'],
expected_aud: 'https://shop.example',
expected_action_hash: hash(action),
}),
})
const verdict = await res.json()
// valid = live agent, owner in good standing, not replayed
if (verdict.valid) allow(verdict.owner_id)
verified in 67ms
The simple way to keep your communities real
VeryBot
Block bots and spam by gating your chatrooms and servers to real people.
User Verification
Confirm that the user who registered an account is the one taking an action.
Liveness Detection
Check that a user is human without collecting any data or account information.
Frequently asked questions
Linking an agent to a verified person is free. Each reverification costs $0.02. Discounts are available for large volumes and enterprise. Learn more on our pricing page.
As of 2026, Know Your Agent requires the Very app. If the person was originally enrolled with a platform using the Very SDK, they can still access the Very app.
Yes, humans can approve transactions and actions with a palm scan. The verification process is a key component of Know Your Agent. By verifying transactions and other sensitive actions, a user can keep an agent from stepping outside the bounds of their prompts or taking actions they never asked for.
There is no fixed limit on the number of agents a single person can register within Very. That limit can be set by platforms themselves with a platform usage limit as part of their integration. See the docs for more details.
Know Your Agent from Very complements OAuth, MCP, and existing agent authorization standards rather than replacing them. Know Your Agent specifically confirms that an agent is working on behalf of a registered user. A platform can use all of them in tandem for extra security, if they wish.
Know Your Agent is meant for personalized agents acting on behalf of individuals. Users can link an agent to a specific user within the organization, but not organization-wide.
AG9 is a deprecated name for Very’s Know Your Agent product; they are one and the same. Some tools and files may retain the AG9 name.
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