/ Use Case
Identity for the
physical agent economy.
As AI agents transition from software assistants to embodied actors, the trust model must reach into the silicon. Ratify secures the interaction between agents and the physical systems they actuate—from drones and robots to IoT gateways and critical infrastructure.
Constraint-Bound Authorization
Ratify certificates support first-class constraints like geo-circles, time windows, and speed limits. An embedded system or drone can be authorized to act ONLY within specific physical bounds and timeframes, enforced cryptographically at the edge.
Hardware-Rooted Identity
The protocol is designed for the silicon layer. Delegation certificates can be bound to Secure Elements (SE), TPMs, or TEEs on the device, ensuring that authorization is physically tied to the hardware and cannot be exported or spoofed.
Offline-First Verification
IoT and embedded systems often operate in environments with intermittent connectivity. Ratify verifiers are stateless and lightweight, allowing for sub-millisecond, on-device verification without a cloud round-trip.
/ HARDWARE-AWARE SCOPES
Ratify is designed for high-performance embedded targets. Reference implementations in C-ABI compatible Go and Rust ensure the protocol runs on RTOS and bare-metal environments.