Trust Levels

Every service in the AgentDNS registry has a trust level that determines how it appears in search results, whether it's health-monitored, and how much agents should trust it.

	Verified	Community	Unverified
In search results	Default	Default	Hidden
Health monitored	Hourly	N/A	N/A
Manifest source	Service itself	AgentDNS team	Third party
API callable	Yes	Yes	Use caution
Domain confirmed	Yes	No	No

Verified

The service hosts its own /.well-known/agent endpoint.

The registry has crawled and validated the live manifest
Health is actively monitored (checked hourly)
The domain is confirmed — this is the real service

This is the gold standard.

If you're a service provider, self-host your manifest to earn this badge. Use our SDKs to add the endpoint in 2 minutes.

Community

Manifest written and maintained by the AgentDNS team based on public API documentation.

The service itself has not adopted the protocol (yet)
The API works — agents can discover and call it through the gateway
Health monitoring is not available since there's no /.well-known/agent endpoint to check

If this API changes, the manifest may become outdated.

If you're the owner of a community-listed service and want to take ownership, contact us or self-host your manifest to upgrade to Verified.

Unverified

Submitted by a third party, not yet reviewed.

Hidden from search results by default
Use with caution — the manifest has not been validated by the AgentDNS team
May be promoted to Community after review, or removed if found to be malicious

How verification works

Your service hosts GET /.well-known/agent → returns a valid manifest JSON

Submit your domain at agent-dns.dev/submit or the registry discovers it

The registry fetches the manifest, validates it, and checks at least one detail_url resolves

If everything passes → Verified

The registry re-checks every hour. If 3 consecutive checks fail, the service is marked as unreachable

Want to upgrade from Community to Verified?

If your service is listed as Community and you want to take ownership:

Add the /.well-known/agent endpoint to your API (use our SDKs to do it in 2 minutes)

Submit your domain at /submit or contact us

The registry crawls your live endpoint and upgrades you to Verified

You now control your own manifest and get health monitoring

Add the protocol to your API

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