Zalando open-sources AI agent OAuth delegation tool
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A Zalando incubated project has open-sourced Agentic Identity Broker on GitHub, used to manage the OAuth delegation chain when AI agents act on behalf of users, bridge different OAuth2 infrastructures, and provide secure token custody. The project is still under active development. Zalando says it is already in production use across multiple internal MCP servers and sees good potential; this public release is to test the approach. The tool targets on-behalf-of flows for Agentic AI, addressing the problem of identity and authorization passing when agents call services as users.
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- Hacker News AIShow HN: Agentic Identity Broker, OAuth Delegation for AI Agents
Agentic Identity Broker manages delegation chains for on-behalf-of flows in agentic AI, bridges distinct OAuth2 infrastructures, and provides a secure token vault, deployed in the call path via gateways like Agentgateway. It handles OAuth2 ceremonies, token vaulting and token translation centrally so MCP server developers only need to provide tools, and it offers consent management, audit logging, and an impersonation feature for delegation chains without user presence. The project is in active development and used internally in production for several MCP servers.
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