Auth for Agents: Let AI Sign Up for Your Product with auth.md — Michael Grinich, WorkOS
WorkOS proposes auth.md as a standard for AI agents to autonomously authenticate with web services
“The limiting factor here, the actual 'bottleneck', is your brain. How much context can you hold in your head to keep all these processes running simultaneously.”
WorkOS founder Michael Grinich argues that AI agents have evolved from interactive coding assistants to autonomous, long-running processes capable of working for hours or days — and the human context window is now the bottleneck. Against that backdrop, he introduces auth.md as a proposed standard to let AI agents programmatically sign up for and authenticate with web services. This matters because identity and auth is an unsolved infrastructure layer for fully autonomous agents operating across third-party SaaS products.