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 in San Francisco. 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 ​What you'll learn If you're deploying agents and tired of rebuilding the auth layer from scratch every time, come hang out.