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Your platform is connecting agents to internal tools through MCP servers. How do you handle identity and authorisation?

An agent is a workload that acts on behalf of a person, holds credentials for several systems, and decides what to call based on text it read. Every one of those properties breaks an assumption in your existing access model.

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An agent is a workload that acts on behalf of a person, holds credentials for several systems, and decides what to call based on text it read. Every one of those properties breaks an assumption in your existing access model.

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