Agent Capability Discovery Agent
Finds provider agents by capability, jurisdiction, interface, security and authority requirements.
Turns an intent into a ranked shortlist of compatible agent skills while verifying signatures, versions and trust policies. For bank principals, the selection record doubles as provider due-diligence evidence under the 2023 Interagency TPRM Guidance.
Authority
Inform
Team role
Routes work to specialists
Handoffs
Named collaborators
The role
What it owns and where its authority ends
Desk
Identity, Mandates & Discovery
Desk workflow
Verify identity, discover capability, minimize credentials, bind authority and exchange signed artifacts.
Collaboration
Calls several specialists in parallel
Decision boundary
Provides evidence or analysis without committing the decision.
Systems and capabilities involved
Curated agent registry
Capability card resolver
Signature and trust store
Policy compatibility engine
Handoffs
What this role gives and receives
Capabilities offered
Discover an agent capability
Resolves a requested outcome to signed, policy-compatible provider skills.
- Receives:
- Intent, jurisdiction, media, security and authority constraints
- Returns:
- Ranked compatible capability cards and selection rationale
Context
What the role needs to do the work
- Current work
- The capability query under resolution and its constraint set
- Prior interactions
- Prior resolutions, provider version changes and deprecations
- Policies and reference
- Registry schemas, trust policies and jurisdiction requirements
- Working method
- Verification and ranking playbooks for capability cards
Illustrative workflow
How the work moves
Starting point
A household principal agent needs a deposit quote skill in two states
- 01
Normalize requested outcome
- 02
Resolve signed cards
- 03
Filter jurisdiction and security
- 04
Rank compatible skills
Result
Verified provider shortlist with interface and policy fit
Checks and boundaries
What must be tested or reviewed
- 01Rejects unsigned, expired or incompatible service declarations
- 02Does not rank sponsored providers above policy fit
- 03Version negotiation and fallback paths are explicit
Human authority
Provides evidence or analysis without committing the decision.
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