AAuth Night: Moving Beyond OAuth

AI engineers are discovering that connecting agents to company tools means rebuilding the identity layer from scratch: short-lived credentials, per-user delegation, audit trails, scoped access, and secure multi-agent handoffs. Every team is solving the same problems independently, and many are still relying on bearer tokens and long-lived API keys that were never designed for autonomous systems. AAuth is a new auth protocol designed for agents, built by the author of OAuth, Dick Hardt . AAuth lets you run your agent without API Keys and bounds an agent's authority to its mission, re-checked at every step rather than approved once at the moment a scope is granted. We'll have lightning talks and live demos from Dick himself , Jared Hanson , Keycard CTO and author of Passport.js, and other…