Muriel — Building a Passport System for AI Agents
The Problem AI agents are everywhere now. They book flights, make purchases, send emails — all without a human touching a keyboard. But there’s a problem nobody has solved yet: how does Skyscanner know the agent booking a flight is legitimate? How does any API know who the agent is, who owns it, and what it’s actually allowed to do? Right now it doesn’t. There’s no standard. No identity layer. No audit trail. If an agent spends £50,000 on plane tickets instead of £5,000, nobody knows who’s responsible and nobody can prove what happened. ...