How to Let AI Agents Sign Up for Your App Safely — Isabelle Williams, WorkOS
WorkOS PM introduces off.md, an open protocol for AI agents to register and access apps autonomously
“your next user will be an agent”
WorkOS product manager Isabelle Williams presents off.md, an open protocol that lets AI agents discover how to register accounts and call APIs in third-party applications, framing agents as a new class of user that apps must explicitly support. The talk identifies three challenges for the agentic era: agent onboarding discovery, linking agent sessions to real customer accounts, and scoping/revoking agent permissions for compliance. This is a practical infrastructure pattern for developers building agent-ready SaaS products, relevant as personal agents (Muse, Instinct) begin delegating app interactions on behalf of users.