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Resolving the AI Agent Identity Crisis: Many Standards, One Direction

When an AI agent calls a payment API, deploys code, or hands work to another agent, a valid access token answers only part of the security question. The harder question is what constitutes that agent’s identity in the first place. Is it the code being executed? The underlying model? The runtime instance? The credential it presents? The person it acts for? The intent of its current task?

Oct 09, 2026

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