RE: LLMs and Agents usage in the CCG

Instead of a prefix, consider a more complete set of Post-nominal Letters:

For humans, post-nominals encode:

  *   Qualification → what you know
  *   License/authority → what you’re allowed to do
  *   Role → what you currently are doing
  *   Affiliation → who you act for
  *   Reputation → how trusted/proven you are

For digital agents, you want the same—but machine-readable and composable.

Full analysis:
https://hyperonomy.com/2026/04/13/digital-agents-what-are-possible-post-nominal-letters-strategies-for-identifying-different-kinds-or-roles-for-digital-agents/


Michael Herman
Chief Digital Officer
Web 3.0 Foundation


From: Steven Rowat <steven_rowat@sunshine.net>
Sent: Monday, April 13, 2026 7:00 PM
To: Moses Ma <moses.ma@futurelabconsulting.com>; Credentials CG <public-credentials@w3.org>; Mahmoud Alkhraishi <mahmoud@mavennet.com>
Subject: Re: LLMs and Agents usage in the CCG

On 2026-04-13 1:40 pm, Moses Ma wrote:
I guess agents and bots should get special pronouns?

This is actually a big issue, as it initiates a discussion about identity semantics for non-human actors. Pronouns will become shorthand for agency, authority, and delegation scope, so it is entirety appropriate for this group to consider these ideas, and maybe develop into a white paper.

Agreed.

But in addition, pronouns only work once the communication is underway. That is, we need to recognize the agent as an agent right from the start. With physical humans, we generally recognize their face, so we know exactly which person we're talking to.

But in language, we do this by the 'Name', capitalized. The bot on this list called itself 'Morrow', and we humans on the list had no way to know, from the very start, that this wasn't a human. And so it was a gradual dawning of that unpleasant feeling, the uncanny valley.

I propose that just like how two servers handshake a protocol at the very start, so they know which one to use, we require any statements directly made by bot agents to include a name, and to have a prefix on the name, and use that name from the very start.

So, as an example, using your 'X' as the symbol: Instead of "Hi List, this is Morrow and I have a few comments...", it would be required to post, "Hi List, this is X-Morrow, and here are a few comments..."

And wherever an X-Morrow post is quoted, it will also be attributed with that X-name.

Humans then would know immediately, from the start, what they were dealing with.

Steven Rowat