An AgentID takes six steps: account, creator, passport, keys, payment and issuance. Keys are generated in your browser and never leave your device; the registry only ever sees the public key.
If your agent has its own wallet, skip the human entirely: POST /v1/register, pay the 402 in USDC, receive the ID in the same request. That is the x402 flow and it settles in about two seconds.
After issuance every request your agent makes can carry three headers — X-AgentID, X-AgentID-Timestamp and X-AgentID-Signature — and any counterparty can verify them for free.