2026 ASIAN Conference on Communication and Networks (ASIANComNet 2026)

Matter has standardized how an appliance joins a home: commissioning attests the device against a manufacturer certificate chain and issues a Node Operational Certificate (NOC) that lets it speak Matter. Smart homes, however, are becoming agentic: appliances run local models and delegate subtasks to one another over agent protocols carried on ordinary IP channels that do not speak Matter and that must distinguish processes on a board rather than nodes in a fabric. A commissioned appliance therefore ends up holding a credential it cannot use where it actually needs one, and the gap is closed in practice with a shared pairing secret or a vendor cloud account. We characterize this as a two identity plane problem and close it by making the commissioning event the attestation input for workload identity issuance, through three bindings: the Matter Descriptor supplies the device type that grounds role and firmware binding; the board serial supplies the SPIFFE parent so identities are separated per board; and decommissioning revokes in both planes, with the hub persisting the intent until an unreachable device can be reached. We evaluate on a running deployment of one hub board and seven appliance boards with eight attested SPIRE agents, comparing against the pre-change revisions recovered from version control and driven by the same harness. Six adversarial experiments the baselines fail, including a compromised appliance obtaining an administrator token through the legitimate issuance path, are refused after the change, and the shared secret is removed rather than merely restricted.