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title: "Vendor trust is the missing primitive for agentic commerce - Trooth"
description: "Agents that transact with vendors need a trust signal they can verify first: witnessed, signed and queryable, not self-reported."
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# Agentic commerce

Agents now research, shortlist and increasingly transact with vendors for people. Each step is a trust decision, and at speed an agent needs what human buyers improvised: a signal about the other side it can check first.

## The gap

The trust artifacts built for humans do not survive an agent's scrutiny:

- A questionnaire is self-reported and stale the moment it is filed.
- A row of customer logos is a claim, not evidence.
- A PDF report is a snapshot no machine can re-verify.

Unable to tell real posture from a polished page, an agent trusts too easily or hands the decision back to a human.

## The signal an agent can act on

A vendor-trust signal that works for an agent has four properties:

- **Witnessed.** Read from live evidence, not self-reported: the agent weighs an observation, not a claim.
- **Signed.** Cryptographically verifiable, so the agent can confirm it independently instead of trusting a page.
- **Queryable.** Available in one call over a standard interface, so checking a vendor is a step in the agent's loop, not a scraping project.
- **Honest about absence.** With no data, the signal says so, and the agent treats the gap as a gap.

Trooth publishes that signal: a public Trust Profile per company, carrying a signed witness statement for each reading Trooth takes, re-checked on a schedule, queryable over the Model Context Protocol, honest about unknowns. Only the witness statement is signed, never the company's declarations. Agents can check it before acting and keep its provenance.

## What this is not

A trust signal is not a verdict. Trooth signs what it witnessed; it does not warrant fitness for a purpose or replace the buyer's judgment.

The agent or its person decides if the witnessed state suffices, on dated evidence.

See [how an agent uses it](https://trooth.co/docs/agents) and [the Trooth Network](https://trooth.co/).

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