May 18, 2026Open Access

Agents Are Not Service Accounts: Why Non-Human Identity Needs Its Own Model

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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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www.synapsesocial.com/papers/6a0aad2a5ba8ef6d83b70b2a — DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20242385

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