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Sigil

Cryptographic identity for autonomous actors.

Issues, verifies, and revokes the cryptographic identity every autonomous actor holds — bound to principal, runtime, and lineage from the moment of instantiation.

What it is

The role Sigil plays.

Sigil is constitutive: there is no autonomous actor without one. Every agent, robot, drone, and autonomous service receives a cryptographic identity at the moment it comes into being. The Sigil binds the actor to the human or system that authorized its existence, the runtime hosting it, and the lineage of spawning actors back to a human root. For embodied actors, the Sigil includes hardware attestation rooted in TPM, Secure Enclave, or vendor roots of trust — a verifier can determine, cryptographically, that a request originated from a specific physical robot, running a specific firmware, in a specific configuration.

The problem

What goes wrong without it.

Autonomous actors today have no identity. They are merely the process holding an API key. There is no answer to who an actor is, who authorized its existence, what its lineage is, or whether it has been revoked. Without identity, every authorization, audit, and revocation operation is impossible.

Capabilities

What Sigil does.

Sigil structure

What Sigil looks like in code.

sigil := {
  pubkey:      Ed25519PublicKey,
  principal:   Sigil | HumanIdentityRef,
  runtime:     SigilRef,
  lineage:     [SigilRef, ...]      // chain back to root principal
  bundle:      ContentHash,         // the bundle this actor was instantiated from
  issued_at:   Timestamp,
  not_after:   Timestamp,
  attestation: HardwareAttestation? // for embodied actors
  revocation_endpoint: URL,
}

Open and commercial

Built in the open. Run anywhere.

Sigil is delivered through two surfaces: an open-source reference in Lattice Runtime (MPL 2.0), and a managed, enterprise-grade delivery in Visca Cloud. Features in the open never move behind the paywall.

Open

Lattice Runtime — open foundation

MPL 2.0 · self-hostable · foundation-track governance

  • ·Sigil identity schema
  • ·Reference issuer
  • ·Local verification primitives
  • ·Revocation protocol

Commercial

Visca Cloud — managed delivery

Hosted SaaS · self-managed · hybrid · air-gapped

  • ·Hosted Sigil issuance at scale
  • ·Cross-organization federation
  • ·Enterprise IdP integration (Okta, Azure AD, Ping)
  • ·Hardware HSM-backed signing keys
  • ·Compliance-grade audit of issuance

TLM · same pillar

Sigil works with

Across the platform

Composing with the other pillars.

The autonomy economy is shipping

Do autonomy right.

Build, run, and trust autonomous systems on an integrated platform — software, embodied, and hybrid. Open foundation. Enterprise cloud. No license rug-pulls, ever.