# AGNTCY Documentation

Open infrastructure for the Internet of Agents.

AGNTCY is an open source collective building the software components and services that let agents discover each other, verify capabilities, communicate securely, and collaborate across frameworks and organizational boundaries.

## Explore the Documentation

- **Agent Directory Service**

  Federated registry for publishing, verifying, and discovering agents and multi-agent applications.

  [Directory docs](https://dir.agntcy.org/latest/)

- **Secure Low-Latency Interactive Messaging (SLIM)**

  Secure network-level messaging for multi-agent applications with pub/sub, streaming, and MLS encryption.

  [SLIM docs](https://slim.agntcy.org/latest/)

- **Open Agent Schema Framework (OASF)**

  Extensible data model for describing agent attributes, skills, and capabilities across A2A, MCP, and more.

  [OASF overview](https://docs.agntcy.org/oasf/open-agentic-schema-framework/index.md)

- **Identity**

  Decentralized identity for agents and tools—identifiers, verifiable credentials, and policy-based access.

  [Identity overview](https://spec.identity.agntcy.org/docs/intro)

- **SHADI**

  Secure Host for Agentic AI Dynamic Instantiation — a hardened runtime with verified identity, gated secrets, OS sandboxing, and encrypted local memory.

  [SHADI docs](https://shadi.agntcy.org/)

- **Observability and Evaluation**

  Telemetry collectors, tools, and services for multi-agent observability and performance evaluation.

  [Observability overview](https://docs.agntcy.org/obs-and-eval/observe-and-eval/index.md)

- **CSIT**

  Continuous system integration testing for AGNTCY components and multi-agent workflows.

  [CSIT overview](https://docs.agntcy.org/csit/csit/index.md)

- **CoffeeAGNTCY**

  Reference implementation demonstrating how to build multi-agent applications with AGNTCY components.

  [Get started](https://docs.agntcy.org/coffee-agntcy/get-started/index.md)

- **How to Contribute**

  Guidelines for contributing documentation, code, and community improvements.

  [Contributing](https://docs.agntcy.org/contributing/index.md)