Own and Trust Your Agent

You own your agent

When you acquire an agent as a Producer, you own your instance of it. Ownership is held by you, it's transferable, and it isn't locked to the platform.

That ownership is recorded as a transferable ownership token tied to your deployed agent. If you want to hand the agent off to someone else, you can transfer it. Your agent is an asset you control, not a seat you rent.

You stay in control of credentials

Most automations need to talk to other services on your behalf — your email, your spreadsheet, your CRM. indie.money handles those connections through the Secure Vault, so your keys are stored securely and used only to run your agent.

You get three ways to provide credentials, and you choose which one fits:

Bringing your own keys always wins when it's set, so you're never locked into someone else's credentials while you own the agent.

Configured credentials stay attached to the agent instance. If you transfer the agent, those credentials transfer with it unless you revoke them at the external provider first.

Why this matters

Ownership and credential control are what make an agent something you can actually depend on for your business. You're not building on rented ground: you own the agent, you decide whose keys it runs on while you hold the NFT, and you can transfer the whole working instance when you sell it. For transfer details, read What Transfers When You Sell Your Agent. To see how this fits the bigger picture, read Why indie.money.