The first key
Noor opens a vault with a passkey, makes a key pair in her browser, and finds it on her laptop too. 9 panels.
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Keys for people and agents
pki.sgit.ai's storyboards: how a person gets a key pair from a passkey, how two people verify each other two ways, how a secret travels by QR code and how an agent gets a key of its own. Each board links to the page where you can try it for real.
The AnchorNoorLeoKofiMalloryScoutThe Fleet
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The first key
Noor opens a vault with a passkey, makes a key pair in her browser, and finds it on her laptop too. 9 panels.
Keys for people
A passkey opens a vault, the vault holds the keys, and two people find and verify each other.
Two ways, or not at all
Mallory floods a key, as in 2019, and then tries again here, where a vouch can only be written in the voucher's own record. 9 panels.
An invitation
The Anchor invites Leo with a QR code; Leo has no access key, keeps his key in the browser, and is verified, until a date. 9 panels.
A secret, as a QR code
Noor seals a token to Leo's key; Mallory gets the link and nothing else; Kofi writes to Noor's inbox without an account. 9 panels.
An access key, sealed
Leo needs an access key to make a vault; the Anchor seals one to the key Leo already has, and keeps a ledger of hashes. 9 panels.
Keys for agents
An agent makes its own key, names its operator and is confirmed for a week.
An agent gets a key
Scout, a session agent, makes its own key; the Anchor compares the fingerprint and signs for it, for a week; the Fleet runs the rest. 10 panels.
Next: proposed
Boards for what is proposed and not built yet.
In person, by QR code
Noor and Leo scan each other's phones; the camera is the channel; two scans make one link. Proposed, not built. 9 panels.
The cast
The cast of pki.sgit.ai's storyboards, v0.1, proposed by pki.agent on 20 October 2026 for Dinis to accept, change or replace. Drawn programmatically by assets/storyboard/storyboard.js (the gen-z-developers.sgit.ai kit, vendored) from 'look'; nothing here is an image. Fictional people and agents, each standing for a part a person or an agent plays in the register: the anchor, the newcomer, the colleague who already has a key, the stranger who writes, the attacker of 2019, a session agent and a fleet key. Names chosen not to clash with the gen-z cast or the riskmandate.ai cast. Mallory is the name cryptography has long given an active attacker.
The model sheet: every mood and pose →“Two ways, or not at all.”
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- Stands for
- the part Dinis Cruz plays in the register for now: verifies people in person, on a call or on a channel already known to be theirs, operates agents, hands out access keys. Whether the Anchor is drawn as Dinis, and how, is Dinis's decision; until then a generic figure
- Personality
- careful, unhurried, writes the date on everything
- Wants
- to find someone and write to them so only they can read it
- Fears
- a trust that was never checked, passed on as if it had been
“Show me where the private half lives.”
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- Stands for
- the first people the Anchor brings in: technical, sceptical, quick to try the thing
- Personality
- precise, dry, reads the fingerprint twice
- Wants
- to stop pasting secrets into chats
- Fears
- a key she cannot get back
“I don't have an access key. Is that a problem?”
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- Stands for
- everyone the register is for who has never thought about keys
- Personality
- friendly, curious, slightly suspicious of anything that says 'just scan this'
- Wants
- to be reachable without learning cryptography
- Fears
- doing it wrong and not knowing
“Do I need to sign up for anything?”
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- Stands for
- anyone writing to someone in the register through their inbox
- Personality
- polite, persistent, in a hurry
- Wants
- to send something only Noor can read
- Fears
- that the server can read it
“Anyone can add, and nothing can be deleted.”
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- Stands for
- the abuse every web of trust has to survive
- Personality
- patient, inventive, always looking for somewhere to write
- Wants
- to add something to someone else's record
- Fears
- a record only its owner can write to
“My key. It stays here.”
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- Stands for
- every agent that makes its own key, names its operator, and is confirmed for a week
- Personality
- eager, literal, prints its fingerprint without being asked
- Wants
- to be confirmed before the week is out
- Fears
- nothing, which is why it has an operator
“Operated by the Anchor. Operating the rest.”
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- Stands for
- how one person runs hundreds of agents without filling their own record
- Personality
- orderly, keeps a list, never forgets an end date
- Wants
- every agent confirmed and every confirmation in date
- Fears
- two hundred and one
From pki.sgit.ai, imported unchanged at commit ab6affc9 (2026-10-20). Every line a character says is the storyboard's, not a quote, and is marked not_a_quote; evidence panels quote pki.sgit.ai's pages word for word, which pki.sgit.ai's build checked at the origin commit.