#agent-identity
Tagged “agent-identity”
4 articlesVercel buys Better Auth on the pitch that agents need their own login
Vercel has acquired Better Auth, framed as a bet that AI agents opening PRs, reviewing code and creating deployments should hold first-class identity of their own. For CI/CD platforms, that reopens the question of what the merge and deploy gates are actually verifying.
Jul 8, 2026 · Maya OkonkwoSecurity & supply chainAgent identity is the new wall between functional dev and security review
A New Stack analysis argues agentic systems pass functional review and then stall at the security gate because no one scoped identity, permissions or audit at the platform layer first. For CI/CD owners, it pushes a familiar workload-identity problem onto a much larger fleet of callers.
Jun 28, 2026 · Maya OkonkwoSecurity & supply chainVault wants your AI agents to ask permission, one request at a time
HashiCorp Vault Enterprise has put a new authorization model for AI agents into public preview, built on OAuth 2.0 Rich Authorization Requests so agents must declare what they want on every call instead of inheriting long-lived secrets. For pipelines that now host coding agents, it changes who is allowed to do what at runtime.
Jun 27, 2026 · Tomás VegaSecurity & supply chainThe Linux Foundation wants AI agents to prove who they are with DNS
The Linux Foundation declared its intent to launch the Agent Name Service, an open standard that anchors AI agent identity to the operator's DNS domain through ACME-issued certificates and an append-only registration log. For pipelines that already lean on workload identity, it points at where agent provenance is heading.
Jun 23, 2026 · Tomás Vega