AAuth Night: Moving Beyond OAuth

AAuth Night is back! We had a great turn out for AAuth Night during AI Engineer World's Fair in July and we're keeping the conversation going this fall at the next AAuth Night.

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.

What to expect

LIVE LIGHTNING DEMOS

See AAuth in action

Jared Hanson, Keycard CTO and author of Passport.js

Dick Hardt, Founder of AAuth

and more

What you'll learn

How an agent can call resources without an API key

Why AAuth stops "losing a token" from being a security event

How mission-bounded authority allows the agent's scope to be re-checked every step against what the user actually asked for

How AAuth creates multi-agent delegation chains you can actually audit

The emerging patterns for production agent auth, what's working, and what's still in flight

If you're deploying agents and tired of rebuilding the auth layer from scratch every time, come hang out.