Concepts

Agents

What agent-native means on BitRouter — ACP identity and dispatch, KYA identity for autonomous pay-per-use, and Skills that teach an agent to use BitRouter.

BitRouter is agent-native: the primitives below assume the caller is an autonomous agent, not a human at a keyboard. That shows up in three places — how agents are identified and reached, how they pay, and how they learn to use the router.

Identity and dispatch — ACP

Just as the MCP gateway lets an agent reach many tool servers, the ACP gateway handles the agent side: agent identity, discovery, and task dispatch across hosts. It's how an agent gets a place in the network, can be found, and can hand off or receive tasks — through the same single-endpoint model BitRouter uses everywhere.

Verifiable identity that can pay — KYA

An autonomous agent holding your keys is a liability unless it has an identity of its own. KYA (Know-Your-Agent) gives an agent a verifiable identity, which is what makes autonomous payment safe: with that identity, an agent can pay per use through the Machine Payment Protocol — x402/MPP — settling each request itself, with no credit cards, prepaid credits, or invoices in the loop.

Knowing how to use BitRouter — Skills

Finally, an agent has to actually know how to drive the router. Agent Skills are drop-in capabilities that teach an agent to use BitRouter — how to install it, point a runtime at it, and call models and tools through it — so the knowledge travels with the agent instead of living in a human's setup notes.

Learn how to

  • ACP gateway — agent identity, discovery, and task dispatch across hosts.
  • Agent Skills — drop-in skills that teach an agent to use BitRouter.
  • Agentic payment — autonomous pay-per-use via MPP / x402.

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