What is AI agent identity?
An AI agent that borrows a person's token or a shared API key cannot be limited, audited or stopped on its own. Here is what an identity for an agent consists of.
Tag
OAuth
4 posts
Authenticating MCP servers and tool calls
Where authentication sits in an agent's tool call, how OAuth-based authorisation works for MCP, and why a token must never be passed through to the API behind a tool.
Human approval for agent actions: when to ask and how
Some actions should not be an agent's decision alone. How to pick them, and how to design approval requests that people actually read before they answer.
SAML vs OIDC: which to use for single sign-on
SAML 2.0 and OpenID Connect both deliver single sign-on, in different shapes. How each one works, when to pick which, and what it takes to run both side by side.