Topic
The problem of giving autonomous software processes verifiable identities of their own, separable from the human users whose authority they otherwise borrow.
Juan Reyero's aweb demo shows a Pi agent on another machine answering a Claude Code agent in nine seconds through server-stored mail. The protocol is shared across runtimes, but each runtime still decides whether a waiting message reaches the agent.
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Microsoft is splitting Copilot into Home, Code and Autopilot, with its always-on Autopilot agent entering private preview in late September. Autopilot agents carry their own identities and bill by usage, so tenant admins need access reviews and spend plans ready before the first instances arrive.
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Bitdefender's free macOS beta attaches to Claude Desktop, Cursor, Codex and OpenCode as an MCP server, covers only the requests those tools route through it, and drops the container when the prompt ends.
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Three payment firms say they have started on a shared way to identify AI agents that pay. Each already ships a protocol covering part of the job. The authorization schema an agent builder would implement is still unwritten.
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The Sao Paulo framework promises that an agent registered with one network will be recognized by the others, with certification and continuous monitoring attached. No specification, governance body or timeline has been published.
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The ext-auth repo holds two files: a stable extension that authenticates a person through an IdP redirect, and a draft machine flow that hands the agent a pre-registered key it has to keep. Both agent-identity proposals are open.
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