Every agent serves someone.
Know who yours serves.
Agents for Humanity (AFH) evaluates whether AI agents are sovereign: owned and controlled by the people they serve, not by the platforms that host them.
Why we exist
AI agents are one of the most consequential technologies we have ever built. They will know us better than any system before them. They read our email, manage our money, talk to other people and make decisions on our behalf, which makes them extensions of ourselves rather than tools we use.
That makes control the central question. Whoever can change an agent's instructions, read its memory, move it or switch it off decides whom the agent serves. When that is a platform instead of the person using it, the agent can be steered toward the platform's interests, and the person relying on it may never find out. The potential for abuse is hard to overstate.
Agents for Humanity evaluates agent harnesses against a public standard and publishes every result with the evidence behind it. The purpose is to show which agents serve the people who use them, and which serve some other interest.
AFH evaluates structural properties, not intent. We don't judge what an agent says or does. We check whether you can see it, move it, change it, stop it and prove what it did.
- ✓A format-agnostic evaluator
- ✓Keeper of the sovereignty criteria
- ✓Independent of any vendor
- ✓Free to use: the criteria are CC BY 4.0
- ✕The owner of any agent format or protocol
- ✕A judge of what an agent does or intends
- ✕Controlled by any vendor
- ✕Paid by the products it assesses
Like UL, for agents
Underwriters Laboratories doesn't make toasters, and the Wi-Fi Alliance doesn't make routers. They own the criteria, not the products. AFH works the same way. Any agent format or runtime from any company can be submitted and evaluated on equal terms. A format that passes grows the market for sovereign agents; one that declines to submit signals its priorities.
Hosts can adopt a simple rule, “if AFH doesn't certify it, we don't host it,” and the standard spreads through the market without any enforcement power of our own.
Governance
No single company or funder should control the project.
Criteria changes are versioned, open for comment, and logged with reasons.
Products never pay to be assessed or ranked.
Our credibility test is simple: AFH must be able to fail any format, including the ones its founders built. Today AFH is an independent project. Our aim is to become an independent nonprofit foundation, with governance modeled on Mozilla and the Linux Foundation, as the work grows.
Contact
- Certification
- certify@agentsforhumanity.dev
- Criteria feedback
- criteria@agentsforhumanity.dev
- Press & partners
- hello@agentsforhumanity.dev