[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"branding":3,"analytics":7,"article-openid-foundation-tackles-identity-for-ai-agents-2":10,"sections":32},{"siteName":4,"siteTagline":5,"publisherName":4,"contactEmail":6},"The Revision","Tech news, decoded.","editor@therevision.news",{"gaMeasurementId":8,"adsenseClientId":9},"G-ZW2MV82GYR","ca-pub-8533917693782264",{"article":11},{"id":12,"slug":13,"title":14,"dek":15,"body_md":16,"tags_json":17,"published_at":18,"created_at":19,"updated_at":20,"status":21,"review_note":22,"review_notes":23,"image_url":22,"persona_id":22,"persona_name":22,"section":24,"tags":25,"sources":30,"feedback":31,"feedback_at":22,"cost_usd":31,"total_tokens":31},9404,"openid-foundation-tackles-identity-for-ai-agents-2","OpenID Foundation Tackles Identity for AI Agents","A new OpenID Foundation paper argues that identity systems built for human logins break down when AI agents start acting on their own.","The OpenID Foundation just put out a paper on how we identify AI agents acting on our behalf, not just the humans behind them.\n\nThe foundation published a PDF titled \"Identity Management for Agentic AI\" in 2025, and it resurfaced on Hacker News this week, pulling 42 points and six comments. OpenID is the standards body behind OpenID Connect, the protocol running most \"Sign in with Google\" and \"Sign in with Microsoft\" buttons online. The new paper applies that same lens to a different problem: how authentication and authorization should work when the thing making a request is a semi-autonomous software agent, not a person typing a password. It's a technical document aimed at engineers and standards wonks, not a product launch.\n\nOAuth and OpenID Connect assume a human clicks \"allow\" once, and a token stands in for that person's consent indefinitely. Agentic AI breaks that assumption: an agent can spawn sub-agents, run unsupervised for hours, or chain decisions no human reviewed in real time. Without a shared standard for scoping and delegating that authority, every company building agents ends up improvising its own permission scheme - the same fragmentation problem OAuth was invented to fix in the first place.\n\nStandards papers tend to lag the products they describe, and agent frameworks have already been shipping ad hoc auth hacks for over a year - the real question is whether builders wait for OpenID's answer or just keep bolting on API keys.","[\"agentic-ai\",\"identity-management\",\"openid\",\"security\"]","2026-10-01T15:11:10.000Z","2026-10-02T16:19:14.061Z","2026-10-02T16:19:20.546Z","published",null,[],"ai",[26,27,28,29],"agentic-ai","identity-management","openid","security",[],0,{"sections":33},[34,38,42,47,52,57,62,67,72,77,82,87,92,97],{"name":35,"slug":24,"count":36,"latest_published_at":37},"AI",5721,"2026-10-01T19:45:44.000Z",{"name":39,"slug":29,"count":40,"latest_published_at":41},"Security",829,"2026-10-01T17:31:56.000Z",{"name":43,"slug":44,"count":45,"latest_published_at":46},"Policy","policy",437,"2026-10-01T18:10:00.000Z",{"name":48,"slug":49,"count":50,"latest_published_at":51},"Deals","deals",317,"2026-10-01T22:00:00.000Z",{"name":53,"slug":54,"count":55,"latest_published_at":56},"Hardware","hardware",198,"2026-10-01T17:38:48.000Z",{"name":58,"slug":59,"count":60,"latest_published_at":61},"Science","science",168,"2026-10-01T18:35:55.000Z",{"name":63,"slug":64,"count":65,"latest_published_at":66},"Consumer Tech","consumer-tech",155,"2026-10-01T19:54:10.000Z",{"name":68,"slug":69,"count":70,"latest_published_at":71},"Dev Tools","dev-tools",96,"2026-10-01T16:57:03.000Z",{"name":73,"slug":74,"count":75,"latest_published_at":76},"Software","software",93,"2026-09-30T21:41:11.000Z",{"name":78,"slug":79,"count":80,"latest_published_at":81},"Startups","startups",90,"2026-10-01T21:55:22.000Z",{"name":83,"slug":84,"count":85,"latest_published_at":86},"Gaming","gaming",53,"2026-10-02T02:50:39.000Z",{"name":88,"slug":89,"count":90,"latest_published_at":91},"General","general",50,"2026-09-30T21:37:54.000Z",{"name":93,"slug":94,"count":95,"latest_published_at":96},"Reviews","reviews",31,"2026-09-28T14:31:34.000Z",{"name":98,"slug":99,"count":100,"latest_published_at":101},"How-To","how-to",7,"2026-10-01T09:00:00.000Z"]