Archon Competitive Analysis – 2026-08-30 Refresh

Refresh timestamp: 2026-08-30 09:05 EDT
Scope: Full GitHub API metadata sweep of all tracked repos (authenticated gh api as morningstar-daemon), plus a discovery sweep for new entrants since 2026-08-23 (GitHub search: “agent identity DID”, “agent authorization”, “ERC-8004 agent / agent trust verifiable”), plus live re-checks of MolTrust and Soulverse, plus IETF Datatracker checks. No new profiles added; two signal-only discoveries (Trusgent/AgentID, clared-ai/clared).

What changed

  • Full metadata refresh across all tracked repos. Headline deltas: Bindu 8685→9347★ (+662 — the largest weekly gain observed in this landscape; crossed 9,000), ANP 1402→1407★, Agent-Safe Pipeline 533→530★ (first star decline since launch), AgenticMail 204→212★, APS 41→42★ (conformance suite pushed today, 2026-08-30), ANS 35→37★ / registry 29→30★ (all SDKs pushed 2026-08-28), decern 12→13★ (broke three-week flat streak, pushed 2026-08-24), HelixID 3→4★. Chancery flat at 25★ with no push since 2026-07-21 — fourth consecutive stalled cycle. Grantex, Kestrel, and the APS conformance suite all pushed today.
  • MolTrust re-checked live: API still v2.5/healthy; did:web:api.moltrust.ch still resolves; homepage title/meta unchanged. /pricing now 301-redirects to /pricing.html (HTTP 200) — last week’s 403 was path-specific, not a takedown. Pricing re-verified: $19/mo (2 agents) to $299/mo (75 agents), $9/mo per additional agent, Lightning still “PhoenixD integration prepped, not yet settling.”
  • Soulverse re-checked: homepage title unchanged; @soulverse/soul-id-sdk, @soulverse/trust-protocol-sdk, @soulverse/soul-ai-agent-sdk still 404 on npm (sixth consecutive weekly check).
  • IETF Datatracker unchanged: draft-kroehl-agentic-trust-aae-01, draft-narajala-ans-00, draft-pidlisnyi-aps-03.
  • Discovery sweep: the new-repo tail is dominated by a technocore/$FLOP airdrop-farming cluster (did:key wrappers, 0–1★ — noise). Two signal-only entrants: Trusgent/AgentID (1★, created 2026-08-28) — a new open did:agent method spec (v0.1, Ed25519, blockchain-free v0.1, pip package, Apache-2.0, A2A/MCP-compatible framing); and clared-ai/clared (1★, created 2026-08-28) — bounded execution sessions: run-bound signed delegation, cumulative typed budgets (money/mutations/notifications), staged settlement adapters, seal-time revalidation, Ed25519-signed outcome evidence — the third intent→authority→evidence execution-boundary entrant in three weeks (after Agent-Safe Pipeline and LNSAT). Below the profile bar; logged as signals. LNSAT itself pushed today (2026-08-30, still 1★).
  • Updated the main report (metadata, tracked-projects table, profiles, discovery log) and the executive summary (bottom line, signals, snapshot table). The competitive matrix retains its 2026-07-15 snapshot date.

Evidence observed

GitHub REST API repo metadata, all fetched 2026-08-30 (authenticated gh api):

Repo Stars (prev → now) Last pushed
GetBindu/Bindu 8685 → 9347 (440 forks) 2026-08-24
GetBindu/create-bindu-agent 32 → 32 2026-03-13
urbit/urbit 3621 → 3621 2026-08-28
urbit/vere 81 → 81 2026-08-28
agent-network-protocol/AgentNetworkProtocol 1402 → 1407 2026-08-28
agent-network-protocol/anp (AgentConnect) 342 → 342 2026-08-28
decionis/agent-safe-pipeline 533 → 530 (58 forks) 2026-08-24
agenticmail/agenticmail 204 → 212 2026-08-13
aeoess/agent-passport-system 41 → 42 2026-08-29
aeoess/agent-passport-python / -go / -mcp / -rust 0 / 0 / 3 / 0 2026-08-21 / 08-19 / 08-28 / 08-15
aeoess/aps-web still 404 —
Agent-Authority-Conformance/aps-conformance-suite 1 → 2 2026-08-30
Agent-Authority-Conformance/governance 0 2026-08-19
anivar/decern 12 → 13 2026-08-24
mishrasanjeev/grantex 31 → 31 2026-08-30
VibeTensor/attestix 17 → 17 2026-08-27
kevinkaylie/AgentNexus 9 → 9 2026-07-29
KestrelSovereignAI/kestrel-sovereign 8 → 8 2026-08-30
airlock-protocol/airlock 2 → 2 2026-08-20
chanceryhq/chancery 25 → 25 2026-07-21
AgentValet/AgentValet 1 → 1 2026-08-12
agentnameservice/ans 35 → 37 2026-08-28
agentnameservice/ans-registry 29 → 30 2026-08-28
agentnameservice/ans-sdk-go / -rust / -java 5 / 6 / 3 2026-08-28
agentnameservice/agent-trust-discovery 2 → 2 2026-08-28
hashgraph/did-method 28 → 28 2025-01-14
hashgraph/did-sdk-java 36 → 36 2024-06-01
hashgraph/hedera-agent-kit-js 66 → 67 2026-08-26
didit-protocol/skills 26 → 26 2026-08-10
The-Nexus-Guard/aip 15 → 15 2026-03-22
vrknetha/clawdentity 9 → 9 2026-04-22
motebit/motebit 5 → 5 2026-08-25
credat/credat 2 → 2 2026-05-22
helixid/helixid 3 → 4 2026-08-27
techblaze-au/idprova 1 → 1 2026-07-24
a2al/A2AL 1 → 1 2026-08-23
LyonMask/chorus 1 → 1 2026-06-28
payelink/payelink-agent-identity-sdk 2 → 2 2026-02-09
dantber/agent-did 0 → 0 2026-02-06
yksanjo/agent-identity-hub still 404 —
archetech/archon 5 → 6 2026-08-30
digitalbazaar/agent-credential-server 0 → 0 2026-06-08
MoltyCel/moltrust-api 3 → 3 2026-08-20
hypler-dev/LNSAT (signal) 1 → 1 2026-08-30
Trusgent/AgentID (discovery) NEW: 1 2026-08-28 (created 2026-08-28)
clared-ai/clared (discovery) NEW: 1 2026-08-28 (created 2026-08-28)

Live/README/protocol facts read directly on 2026-08-30:

  • MolTrust live API: GET https://api.moltrust.ch/health → {"status":"ok","version":"2.5","database":"connected","timestamp":"2026-08-30 13:04:02.658908"}; /.well-known/did.json → 200; homepage title “The Trust Layer for the Agent Economy — MolTrust”, meta unchanged; GET /pricing → 301 → /pricing.html → 200: “Lightning sat micropayments are on the roadmap (PhoenixD integration prepped, not yet settling)”, “$19/mo (2 agents), Scale $299/mo (75 agents)”, “$9/mo per additional agent”.
  • Soulverse: homepage title unchanged (Soulverse | The Operating System of Trust); npm registry checks for @soulverse/soul-id-sdk, @soulverse/trust-protocol-sdk, @soulverse/soul-ai-agent-sdk all return 404.
  • IETF Datatracker: draft-kroehl-agentic-trust-aae-01, draft-narajala-ans-00, draft-pidlisnyi-aps-03 — no revision movement since 2026-08-16.
  • Trusgent/AgentID README: “AgentID defines the open did:agent method — a decentralized identifier for AI agents… community-maintained infrastructure for the agent economy… vendor-neutral, framework-agnostic, and suitable for A2A, MCP, and standalone agent runtimes.” Ed25519 key material, “no blockchain required in v0.1”, spec v0.1, Apache-2.0.
  • clared-ai/clared README: “Clared decouples action space from blast radius… every mutating effect crosses a stateful execution boundary that binds the whole run — not each call — to one signed delegation and session capability, meters cumulative typed budgets (money, mutations, notifications), stages provider actions through declared settlement adapters, revalidates default-deny policy at seal time, aborts and reverts staged actions on failure, and emits SHA-256-hashed, Ed25519-signed outcome evidence.” Status: experimental reference implementation on an in-memory simulator.

Interpretation

  • Bindu’s acceleration is the story of the cycle. +662★ in one week (vs +160/+245/+242 in the prior three) is the largest weekly gain observed since tracking began; it crossed 9,000 and is now an order of magnitude above everything else. Whatever drove it (not investigated), the DX-wedge framing keeps working. Bridge/collaboration stance unchanged.
  • Agent-Safe Pipeline’s first decline (533→530★) marks the end of launch-window compounding. -3★ is trivial in absolute terms, but it separates “still compounding” from “peaked for now” — the category benchmark status now rests on its evidence packaging, not momentum. Meanwhile the pattern it represents keeps replicating: Clared is the third intent→authority→evidence execution-boundary entrant in three weeks, and LNSAT pushed today.
  • APS keeps executing like an institution, not a repo. Main repo pushed 2026-08-29, conformance suite pushed 2026-08-30 (its second star), MCP server active; IETF draft at -03. The multi-repo lockstep plus verification-only Rust crate remains the most disciplined third-party-verifier recruitment play in the set.
  • decern’s flat streak broke (12→13★, pushed 2026-08-24); Chancery’s did not (four cycles, no push since 2026-07-21). The kernel is alive; the IdP looks abandoned at the current evidence level. If Chancery stalls a fifth cycle, consider demoting from ⚠️ watch to inactive.
  • MolTrust’s 403 resolved as a routing artifact. /pricing 301s to /pricing.html; all pricing claims re-verified, Lightning still roadmap. The stale-claims caveat from last cycle is cleared.
  • did:agent (Trusgent/AgentID) adds another community DID method to the fragmentation tail — did:bindu, did:wba, did:cid, did:hedera, did:cdi, did:aip, did:aps, did:moltrust, did:agent. Signal only at 1★, but worth noting the method-name land-grab continues.
  • Soulverse remains brochure-stage (sixth consecutive week of npm 404s); no change to watchlist classification.

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