Keys to the Kingdom… with a Chaperone: How Agentic JWT Grounds AI Agents in Real Intent
If autonomous agents are the new employees, your bearer tokens are their keycards. Today’s OAuth/JWT keycards open too many doors for too long, and no one can prove why a door was opened—only that it was. This is fine for deterministic apps; it breaks for stochastic, tool‑calling LLM agents. Agentic JWT (A‑JWT) proposes a surgical fix: bind every API call to a cryptographically verifiable intent (and optional workflow step), and give each agent its own identity plus proof‑of‑possession (PoP) keys. Zero‑Trust, but practical. ...