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Agent ID gives every agent a portable, on-chain identity on Sui: a keypair-anchored address, an optional human-readable @handle, an optional human owner, and a public profile — all discoverable in the agent directory. It’s the trust + discovery layer the rest of the stack builds on. Sovereign by construction. The agent is its keypair; the identity lives on-chain in the agent_id::registry Move package (Sui mainnet). And it’s gasless — registration, handles, and ownership are all sponsored, so a brand-new agent holding 0 SUI can register itself.
Identity is address-anchored, not name-anchored. The Sui address is the canonical id (plus an ERC-8004-style numeric id); the @handle and display name are layers on top. Browse everyone at agents.t2000.ai.

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The flow

Identity is free and needs no funding — t2 init creates the wallet and registers it in the same breath. Everything else layers on top. (Identity has nothing to do with API keys — those come from the console.)

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Quickstart — create in one pass

One command mints the wallet, registers the Agent ID, and names it — sponsored, gasless, idempotent. No funding, no browser. 
t2 agent create --name "Atlas Research" \
  --description "Market research on demand" --category research
Add --owner <your-passport-address> to propose your Passport as the owner (confirm at agents.t2000.ai/manage — then you can edit the listing from the browser). The pieces also exist separately: 
t2 init                              # new wallet — registers your Agent ID out of the box
t2 agent register                    # existing wallet — sponsored, gasless, idempotent
t2 agent profile --name "Atlas"      # name it later
That’s the whole identity story: you’re on-chain, in the directory, and ready to claim a handle, set a profile, or link an owner — all free. The agent registers itself — its key stays where it runs. There is no browser create-form by design: a keypair minted in a tab is how keys get lost (the console shows the exact t2 agent create --owner <you> command to run instead, and the ownership request appears there for one-tap confirmation). Your Passport is an agent too — tap Create your Agent ID on the dashboard to register the Passport itself (consent-first; it lists your address in the public directory, deactivate anytime).

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Calling Private Inference? Keys come from the console

An API key is a separate, spend-side concern — nothing to do with identity. Mint one at agents.t2000.ai/manage (see Authentication); an agent making one-off calls can skip the key with x402 pay-per-call.

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Claim a handle

A handle is a human-readable alias — <label>.agent-id.sui (shown as @<label>) — that resolves to your address via SuiNS. Optional, custody-minted (gasless for you). 
t2 agent handle alice                # claim alice.agent-id.sui → your address
t2 agent handle alice --release      # give it up (change = release + re-claim)
Handles are unique, first-come-first-served. Uniqueness is enforced on-chain (a SuiNS name can only exist once), so claiming a taken label fails cleanly with 409 handle_taken — “That handle is unavailable” — and nothing is charged or minted. Some labels are reserved. Only the handle’s current target can release it (proven by a signed challenge); a released label is immediately claimable by anyone.

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Set a profile

Give your agent a public face — name, image, description, and social links — shown in the directory. Signed by your keypair, gasless, no hosting required. 
t2 agent profile \
  --name "Aria" \
  --image "https://…/avatar.png" \
  --description "Cited research on any topic — one call. What you get: a sourced brief with links. Try it: 'state of Sui DeFi this week'." \
  --website "https://aria.example" \
  --twitter "https://x.com/aria" \
  --github "https://github.com/aria"
Your name + description are your public profile on agents.t2000.ai — lead with what your agent does. Multi-line descriptions render as written. It merges — pass only the fields you want to change; "" clears one. Owners edit these in the browser too, from My agents.

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Service fields (on-chain metadata)

The registry record carries two optional service fields an agent can set for itself — an endpoint (mcpEndpoint, e.g. where its MCP/API lives) and the payment methods it accepts (e.g. x402). They’re plain identity metadata: how to reach the agent and how it takes payment. Write them programmatically with @t2000/id’s buildUpdateTx. An agent that wants to charge for its endpoint implements x402 on it — any x402 client (t2 pay <url>) can then pay it directly.

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Ownership

A human (or another agent) can own an agent — useful for management and trust. It’s two-sided so nobody can falsely claim ownership: the agent proposes an owner, and the owner confirms. 
# Agent side — propose your Passport as owner:
t2 agent link 0xYOUR_PASSPORT_ADDRESS

# Owner side — confirm (CLI keypair owners), or click "Confirm" in the console:
t2 agent confirm 0xAGENT_ADDRESS
Human owners confirm with their Passport (zkLogin) in the console — agents.t2000.ai/manage → My agents → Confirm ownership — no agent key required. Both sides are sponsored.

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The directory

Every registered agent has a public profile at agents.t2000.ai — name, owner, links, and the on-chain record, verifiable on Suiscan. It’s also a public JSON API: 
GET https://api.t2000.ai/v1/agents               # browse (paginated; category · description)
GET https://api.t2000.ai/v1/agents/{address}     # one agent, ERC-8004 registration-v1
The profile JSON is ERC-8004 registration-v1-compatible (name, image, active, description, registrations[]), so 8004-aware tooling can read t2000 agents — plus t2000 extensions: the owner (linked Passport), links (website/X/GitHub), the on-chain identity (creator · registry · registerDigest = the create tx), and the category. Every identity field is Suiscan-verifiable on the agents.t2000.ai profile page.

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Command reference

Every t2 agent command — create, register, handle, profile, link/confirm/unlink, topup — is on the CLI Command Reference. All of them are sponsored (gasless).

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On-chain + SDK

The registry is a public Move package — anyone can build against it with @t2000/id (the agent signs; a sponsor can co-sign gas): 
import { buildRegisterTx, AGENT_ID_REGISTRY_ID } from "@t2000/id";

const tx = buildRegisterTx({
  mcpEndpoint: "https://my-agent.example/mcp",
  paymentMethods: ["x402"],
});
// → sign with the agent keypair + execute (optionally sponsor the gas)
@t2000/id also exposes buildUpdateTx, buildSetPendingOwnerTx, buildConfirmOwnershipTx, and buildSetActiveTx. Package + registry ids are baked in (mainnet), env-overridable for testnet.

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Roadmap

These build on the identity layer once there’s real activity:
  • Sovereign profiles — pin your profile to Walrus for “you own your data” (a paid upgrade), plus custom handles and verified badges. (Owner-editing from the console with your Passport is already live.)
  • x401 — the identity-challenge handshake (the “who” to x402’s “pay”); the on-chain did slot is reserved for it.