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March 21, 2026

Open-World OAuth Still Needs Mission Shaping

Open-world OAuth can improve discovery, resource binding, and first-contact trust. That still leaves the harder agent problem: how approved intent becomes bounded authority that stays governed across delegation chains, unfamiliar tools, consent expansion, revocation, and task termination.

OAuth Authorization Agentic Identity IAM Mission Shaping AAuth MCP Standards

March 20, 2026

Series Open-World OAuth Part 1 of 2

OAuth for Open-World Ecosystems

OAuth was built for closed worlds, and that constraint is why it became mature. Agents expose the limits of that deployment model. This post traces what the newer OAuth standards get right and which substrate gaps still need to close.

OAuth Authorization Agentic Identity OpenID Connect MCP Standards