Your AI agent shouldn't inherit your admin's permissions

Agent Auth, a WorkOS early-access feature for first-party agents, addresses the limitation of user-scoped API keys by allowing agents to operate with permissions limited independently from the initiating user. It uses reusable blueprints that define an agent’s permission ceiling, eligible invokers, and token and session lifetimes; delegated agents receive only the intersection of the user’s permissions and the blueprint’s ceiling, while autonomous agents receive the ceiling alone. Tokens identify both the agent as the actor and, for delegated sessions, the user whose authority it uses, improving auditability without granting excessive access. Permissions are recalculated whenever tokens refresh, so role changes, sign-outs, removals, and revocations quickly reduce or end agent access. The approach encourages narrowly task-focused permissions, restricted invocation rules, short-lived tokens, and monitoring through agent lifecycle events. It does not govern third-party agents or resource-level access such as particular projects or records, so applications must continue enforcing fine-grained authorization at tool boundaries.

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