[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"branding":3,"analytics":7,"article-openid-foundation-tackles-identity-for-ai-agents":10,"sections":41},{"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":30,"tags":31,"sources":36,"feedback":40,"feedback_at":22,"cost_usd":40,"total_tokens":40},9374,"openid-foundation-tackles-identity-for-ai-agents","OpenID Foundation Tackles Identity For AI Agents","The standards body behind OAuth and OpenID Connect wants AI agents to carry verifiable identities, not just borrowed user credentials.","The OpenID Foundation wants AI agents to have their own verifiable identities instead of quietly borrowing yours.\n\nThe nonprofit standards body behind OAuth and OpenID Connect has published a paper called \"Identity Management for Agentic AI,\" spelling out how software agents acting on a person's behalf should be identified, authenticated, and authorized. It surfaced on Hacker News, where it has picked up a modest 8 points and one comment so far. The document's own file path points to an October 2025 upload, so despite the recent discussion, this isn't breaking news, more a dusted-off standards paper getting a second look. Either way, it lands as companies rush to ship AI agents that can book flights, file support tickets, and move money without a human clicking \"confirm.\"\n\nRight now most AI agents operate wearing their user's identity like a borrowed badge: an API key or OAuth token issued to a person gets used by code acting with its own degree of autonomy. That makes it hard to audit who actually did what, or to limit an agent's permissions without also hobbling the human behind it. A real standard for agent-specific identity would let a company revoke an agent's access without locking out the employee who deployed it, and give auditors an actual trail to follow.\n\nOpenID Connect itself took years to go from spec to default login button, so a paper, even one from the group that wrote that playbook, is a long way from a protocol anyone has to implement. Judging by the single comment on Hacker News, the rest of the industry isn't rushing to read it either.","[\"openid\",\"agentic-ai\",\"identity-management\",\"oauth\"]","2026-10-01T15:11:10.000Z","2026-10-02T14:34:18.528Z","2026-10-02T14:34:22.542Z","published",null,[24],{"id":25,"reviewer":26,"round":27,"reason":28,"status":29},"editor-r1","editor",1,"Drop the invented 'October 1, 2026' HN posting date and the 'just published' framing — the source PDF's URL path (2025\u002F10) suggests this paper is roughly a year old, so verify the actual publish date before claiming it's new, and only state what's confirmed by the source (points\u002Fcomments count, which do match).","resolved","ai",[32,33,34,35],"openid","agentic-ai","identity-management","oauth",[37],{"name":38,"url":39},"Hacker News","https:\u002F\u002Fopenid.net\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2025\u002F10\u002FIdentity-Management-for-Agentic-AI.pdf",0,{"sections":42},[43,47,52,57,62,67,72,77,82,87,92,97,102,107],{"name":44,"slug":30,"count":45,"latest_published_at":46},"AI",5706,"2026-10-01T18:14:42.000Z",{"name":48,"slug":49,"count":50,"latest_published_at":51},"Security","security",829,"2026-10-01T17:31:56.000Z",{"name":53,"slug":54,"count":55,"latest_published_at":56},"Policy","policy",437,"2026-10-01T18:10:00.000Z",{"name":58,"slug":59,"count":60,"latest_published_at":61},"Deals","deals",314,"2026-10-01T18:26:57.000Z",{"name":63,"slug":64,"count":65,"latest_published_at":66},"Hardware","hardware",198,"2026-10-01T17:38:48.000Z",{"name":68,"slug":69,"count":70,"latest_published_at":71},"Science","science",167,"2026-10-01T18:35:55.000Z",{"name":73,"slug":74,"count":75,"latest_published_at":76},"Consumer Tech","consumer-tech",154,"2026-10-01T18:42:25.000Z",{"name":78,"slug":79,"count":80,"latest_published_at":81},"Dev Tools","dev-tools",95,"2026-10-01T16:57:03.000Z",{"name":83,"slug":84,"count":85,"latest_published_at":86},"Software","software",93,"2026-09-30T21:41:11.000Z",{"name":88,"slug":89,"count":90,"latest_published_at":91},"Startups","startups",89,"2026-10-01T15:12:27.000Z",{"name":93,"slug":94,"count":95,"latest_published_at":96},"Gaming","gaming",52,"2026-10-01T16:12:23.000Z",{"name":98,"slug":99,"count":100,"latest_published_at":101},"General","general",50,"2026-09-30T21:37:54.000Z",{"name":103,"slug":104,"count":105,"latest_published_at":106},"Reviews","reviews",31,"2026-09-28T14:31:34.000Z",{"name":108,"slug":109,"count":110,"latest_published_at":111},"How-To","how-to",7,"2026-10-01T09:00:00.000Z"]