Establishes a new identity model for AI agents, highlighting flaws in traditional frameworks, implying a need for specific solutions.
The service-account pattern is structurally wrong for AI agents. Per-agent identity with rotation, revocation, and attestation is the operational minimum.Paper #1 of the Non-Human Identity Series. Establishes why the IAM model built for humans and long-lived workloads breaks for agentic systems, and outlines the three-pillar framework (authenticate / authorize / communicate) that the rest of the series develops.
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