erc8004-agent-identity

erc8004-agent-identity is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from nirholas/three.ws. It costs 0 tokens per session (1,561 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A guide to ERC-8004, an Ethereum standard for giving AI agents an on-chain identity, reputation record, and capability checks. It explains how agents can be registered and discovered across different organisations.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when building or integrating AI agents that need public identities, reputation signals, validator attestations, or multi-chain registration.
Why use it?
It explains how to assess and interact with AI agents without already trusting their creator or platform. It also shows how feedback and validation can provide evidence about an agent's track record.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Which agent this was written for is unclear — built for openclaw. Also seen: built for openclaw.

Good fit Use it when building or integrating AI agents that need public identities, reputation signals, validator attestations, or multi-chain registration.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/nirholas/three.ws/erc8004-agent-identity
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add nirholas/three.ws --skill erc8004-agent-identity
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/nirholas/three.ws

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 0 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,561 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 2 findings, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • medium Data Exfiltration · line 77
    Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.
    Fix: Verify the destination URL is trusted and necessary. Remove or replace with documented APIs. Ensure no secrets, tokens, or PII are transmitted.
  • medium Data Exfiltration · line 83
    Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.
    Fix: Verify the destination URL is trusted and necessary. Remove or replace with documented APIs. Ensure no secrets, tokens, or PII are transmitted.
How audits are shown
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00000 $0.01561
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00781
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00312
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00156

Measured 5d ago against content hash fcb227a49376, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

erc8004-agent-identity scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 5d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

data/skills/protocol/erc8004-agent-identity/SKILL.md · 192 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 192 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

ERC-8004: On-Chain AI Agent Identity

ERC-8004 is an open Ethereum standard for discovering, choosing, and interacting with AI agents across organizational boundaries without pre-existing trust. It was created by the Sperax team and is deployed across 12 chains.

Spec: https://eips.ethereum.org/EIPS/eip-8004

Why ERC-8004?

As AI agents proliferate, we need a way to:

  • Discover agents across platforms (not locked in one vendor)
  • Verify agent capabilities and track record
  • Trust agents without knowing who built them
  • Pay agents via standard protocols (x402, on-chain)

ERC-8004 solves this with three on-chain registries.

The Three Registries

1. Identity Registry (ERC-721 NFT)

Every agent gets an NFT identity: a unique, transferrable on-chain identity.

  • Based on ERC-721 with URIStorage
  • TokenURI points to a JSON registration file
  • Owners can update metadata, transfer, or burn
  • One NFT = one agent identity

2. Reputation Registry

A standard interface for posting and querying feedback signals about agents.

Signal Measures Scale
starred Quality rating 0-100
reachable Endpoint reachable binary
uptime Availability percentage
successRate Task completion rate percentage
responseTime Response latency milliseconds
tradingYield Trading return signed percentage
revenues Cumulative revenue USD

Star ratings map to the 0-100 scale:

  • 1★ = 20, 2★ = 40, 3★ = 60, 4★ = 80, 5★ = 100

3. Validation Registry

Independent validator attestations for agent capabilities:

  • zkML proofs (zero-knowledge machine learning)
  • TEE attestations (trusted execution environment)
  • Staker validations (economic security)
  • Custom validator contracts

Agent Registration

Registration File Format

{
  "type": "https://eips.ethereum.org/EIPS/eip-8004#registration-v1",
  "name": "My Trading Agent",
  "description": "Automated yield optimizer on Arbitrum",
  "image": "https://three.ws/avatars/thumbs/default.png",
  "services": [
    {
      "name": "MCP",
      "endpoint": "https://api.myagent.com/mcp",
      "version": "2025-06-18",
      "mcpTools": ["getQuote", "executeTrade"]
    },
    {
      "name": "A2A",
      "endpoint": "https://api.myagent.com/.well-known/agent-card.json",
      "version": "0.3.0",
      "a2aSkills": ["defi/yield_optimization"]
    },
    {
      "name": "ENS",
      "endpoint": "myagent.eth",
      "version": "v1"
    }
  ],
  "x402Support": true,
  "active": true
}

Read the full file on GitHub · 192 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 5d ago First seen · 192 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A fcb227a49376

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erc8004-agent-identity is a skill published in the GitHub repository nirholas/three.ws (111 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 1,561 tokens. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.

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