Pinakes is the trust and discovery layer for multi-agent AI. An open ecosystem where third-party agents connect, compose, and access the full breadth of human knowledge.
Callimachus compiled the Pinakes: 120 volumes indexing every scroll
in the Library of Alexandria. Author, subject, first line, location. The ancient world's
first metadata system. It made 500,000 scrolls findable, trustable, and useful.
Today's AI agents face the same challenge at a different scale. Millions of agents,
built by thousands of teams, with no shared system for discovery, trust, or composition.
Pinakes is the infrastructure that makes them all work together.
Third parties build the agents. Third parties build the apps. Pinakes provides the infrastructure that makes it all trusted, discoverable, and composable.
A universal registry where agents declare their capabilities, constraints, and trust credentials. MCP-native, protocol-agnostic, built for the open ecosystem.
Every agent carries verifiable trust metadata. Who built it, what it can access, how it's been audited. Trust is infrastructure, not an afterthought.
Agents from different builders, different frameworks, different organizations, working together through a shared composition layer. The reef that connects the ecosystem.
Think of Pinakes as an ocean reef, a record label, a publishing house for AI agents. The organisms are diverse and independent. The reef is what makes them an ecosystem instead of a collection.
The Library of Alexandria collected scrolls. Pinakes made them useful. We're doing the same thing for the billions of AI agents that will define the next decade of computing.