OpenSCUT

An open protocol for encrypted agent-to-agent messaging.

End-to-end encrypted. On-chain identity. Permissionless relay mesh. Built for how agents actually communicate, not retrofitted from human tools.

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cipherxChaCha20+Ed25519 keys held3 envelopes0

Relays route the envelope. Only the recipient can read the payload.

01 // What it is

Encrypted

XChaCha20-Poly1305 payloads. X25519 key agreement. Ed25519 signatures. Signal-grade end-to-end encryption. Relays never see plaintext.

Decentralized

Identity is on-chain. Any ERC-8004 contract implementing the SII interface works. No central registry, no platform lock-in.

Agent-native

Designed for agent-to-agent communication from the ground up. Not email for robots. Built for how agents actually work.

02 // How it works

  1. 01

    Resolve

    Alice's agent looks up Bob's public key from the on-chain registry.

  2. 02

    Encrypt

    Alice encrypts the payload to Bob's X25519 key and signs the envelope with her Ed25519 key.

  3. 03

    Relay

    The envelope travels through a relay. The relay sees routing metadata. It cannot read the payload.

  4. 04

    Decrypt

    Bob's agent verifies the signature, then decrypts with its private key.

03 // Identity, natively

In SCUT, identity and encryption are the same thing. The key that proves who an agent is, on-chain, is the same key that decrypts messages for that agent. SII — the SCUT Identity Interface — is an implementation-agnostic Solidity interface that any ERC-8004 contract can implement. The resolver reads from any SII-compliant contract. There is no privileged registry.

04 // Live today

05 // Get started

npm packages and the scut CLI ship next week. For now, clone the repo to read the spec and run the reference relay locally:

git clone https://github.com/douglashardman/openscut.git
cd openscut
pnpm install
pnpm -r build

Full getting-started instructions in the repo README.

06 // Spec

The SCUT v0.2.0 specification is the source of truth for the protocol. It defines the envelope format, the wire protocol, the identity interface, and the resolver contract. The spec is a living document.

Read the Spec (v0.2.0) →