AAuth Night: Moving Beyond OAuth Panel

OAuth, JWTs, and API keys were built for humans and servers, not agents that act on your behalf, chain tasks across tools, and decide what they need at runtime. As AI engineers are shipping agents into production they begin to feel the problems with agent auth and identity today. Consent fatigue, credential management, and agent alignment start to show up and create friction.

This panel explores the problems with agent auth today, how we are updating OAuth to be better for agents with grants like ID-JAG, and why we ultimately need to build a new protocol for agents (AAuth).

This panel was recorded at AAuth Night: Moving Beyond OAuth, an AI Engineer side event on July 1st, 2026 and brings together four people rebuilding auth for agents: Dick Hardt, founder of AAuth and OAuth, Karl McGuinness, identity expert and past Chief Product Architect at Okta, Ian Livingstone, co-founder and CEO of Keycard, and Herman Errico, founder of AARM.