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Auth0 for AI Agents

First-class identity primitives for the AI agents now acting on behalf of users and services.

Auth0 for AI Agents extends Okta Customer Identity Cloud with the primitives an agentic workload actually needs: delegation tied to a human principal, scoped tokens, tool-use boundaries, on-behalf-of flows, and an audit trail that captures the chain of authority. We architect customer-facing AI features on top of it so the authentication and authorisation layer is designed for agents from day one, not retrofitted after the first incident.

Identity for AI is not a credential problem. It is a delegation problem. The principal — a customer, an employee, a service — authorises an agent to act on their behalf inside specific bounds. Get the design wrong and the agent ends up with broader scope than the principal ever had. Get it right and the agent becomes a controlled extension of the user, traceable, revocable, and bound.

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What We Deliver

Designed primitives for agent identity, integrated with the rest of your CIAM control plane.

Agent Identity & Delegation

Every agent runs with an identity tied to a human principal, a defined delegation scope, and a time-bound lifetime. No anonymous agents acting at runtime — every action traceable to who authorised it and for what.

Scoped Tokens & On-Behalf-Of Flows

Per-task tokens with the minimum scope needed to complete one action, not a blanket grant for the agent's lifetime. On-behalf-of flows that survive multi-step agent reasoning without widening trust.

Tool-Use Boundaries

Authorisation policies that survive the agent's runtime decision loop. The agent can decide what to call, but cannot decide what it is allowed to call. Boundaries are designed in, not learned from incidents.

MCP & Standards Alignment

Designed against emerging standards including the Model Context Protocol so agent identity integrates with the broader agentic ecosystem rather than locking you into one vendor's runtime.

Audit Trails Built for Agents

Logs that capture who delegated to which agent, with what scope, against which target, at what time. The forensic basis for both breach investigation and Article 14 human-oversight obligations under the EU AI Act.

Composed With the Rest of CIAM

Auth0 for AI Agents extends Customer Identity Cloud — same identity plane, same policies, same audit. Agent identity is one surface of CIAM, not a parallel system that drifts into its own silo.

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