Tiigid

Tiigid is a fictional open standard designed to enable interoperable management of digital assets and command exchange among autonomous agents and services. It specifies a family of protocols, data formats, and trust mechanisms that support secure, privacy-preserving metadata exchange across diverse platforms.

The design aims for interoperability, scalability, and governance. The core model uses a compact data schema, verifiable credentials, and end-to-end encryption, with privacy-by-design controls that let users decide what metadata to expose.

Tiigid originated in academic discussions about cross-platform agent communication around 2019–2021. A multi-institution consortium published the first public draft in 2020, and several teaching labs have implemented small-scale demonstrations using it.

The architecture is modular. The Core Layer handles authentication, routing, and policy evaluation; the Extension Layer supplies plugins for provenance, annotations, access control, and policy enforcement; the Governance Layer coordinates versioning, conformance, and steward appointments.

Tiigid is released under an open-source license, and a rotating Tiigid Council provides oversight. Conformance tests and certification processes exist to encourage interoperability among independent implementations.

Adoption outside academia remains limited and academic in focus. Proponents cite its clean separation of concerns and extensibility, while critics point to tooling maturity, the learning curve, and the absence of large-scale deployments; competing standards and proprietary systems continue to be widely used.

See also: verifiable credentials, decentralized identifiers, interoperable metadata standards, multi-agent systems.