#delegation

2 resources and 1 guide tagged #delegation on ChangeGamer.

Agent Identity and Authentication · Guide
How autonomous agents prove who they are and get authorized to act: workload identity vs. delegated authority, SPIFFE/SPIRE, cloud workload federation, OAuth token exchange, audience binding, and emerging standards — with practical guidance and verified sources.
Agent Delegation Chains: Credential Propagation in Multi-Agent Systems · Reference
How credential authority flows when one agent spawns another — the multi-hop delegation problem, RFC 8693 token exchange, the act/may_act claims, audience binding across hops, and the IETF drafts standardizing verifiable actor chains in 2026.

Guides

How AI Agents Prove Identity and Delegated Authority · guide
The two-layer model an autonomous agent needs to pass before any credential-custody or permission question even applies: a cryptographic workload identity proving what it is (SPIFFE/SPIRE, cloud workload identity federation) and a separate delegated-authority grant proving it may act on a human's or org's behalf (OAuth scopes, RFC 8693 token exchange, RFC 8707 audience binding).