Solving AI Agent Auth: Why Your Bots Need Real Identities

If you’ve put an AI agent anywhere near real infrastructure, you’ve probably hit this problem already: the agent can do things, but you can’t clearly answer who did what, under which permissions, and on whose behalf. At first, most teams glue this together with shared API keys, environment variables, and a few “service accounts” nobody really owns. That works until your agent starts opening PRs, reading customer data, calling internal tools, or chaining actions across systems.