Auth for Agents: Let AI Sign Up for Your Product with auth.md — Michael Grinich, WorkOS
The missing piece is agent registration: today's signup flows assume a human who can fill out forms, solve CAPTCHAs and copy API keys, and MCP auth still needs a person in the loop.
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Key points
- Agents are starting to pick your vendors, and most signup flows block them at the door.
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- He introduces auth.md, an open spec built on OAuth standards that tells agents how to register, then demos an agent that finds Cloudflare's auth.md, proves its identity with ID-JAG, gets a temporary account and deploys an app with no human signup.
- Michael Grinich, Founder & CEO, WorkOS
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- [1]Auth for Agents: Let AI Sign Up for Your Product with auth.md — Michael Grinich, WorkOSAI Engineer (YouTube) · Oct 12, 05:37 AM
The missing piece is agent registration: today's signup flows assume a human who can fill out forms, solve CAPTCHAs and copy API keys, and MCP auth still needs a person in the loop.
Agents are starting to pick your vendors, and most signup flows block them at the door.
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