---
title: "Agent Auth"
category: "talks"
date: "2026-06-29"
time: "4:30pm-5:30pm"
track: "Workshops Day 1"
room: "Track 5"
speakers: ["Bereket Habtemeskel", "Paola Estefania"]
sourceLabels: ["Official conference schedule", "Public YouTube metadata"]
scheduleTrack: "Workshops Day 1"
scheduleRoom: "Track 5"
scheduleLabels: ["Workshops Day 1", "Track 5", "workshop", "confirmed"]
---
# Agent Auth

## Conference Context
- Date/time: 2026-06-29 · 4:30pm-5:30pm
- Track/room: Workshops Day 1 · Track 5
- Speaker(s): Bereket Habtemeskel, Paola Estefania
- Session type/status: workshop · confirmed

- Track: Workshops Day 1
- Room: Track 5
- Session type: workshop
- Status: confirmed

## Session Description
Better Auth has grown to 27k GitHub stars and over 1.5M weekly downloads, becoming a popular choice for developers who want to own their authentication stack. We recently introduced Agent Auth, a protocol designed to support autonomous and delegated agents operating services for an organization or a user. It allows agents to dynamically negotiate capabilities, manage access boundaries, and maintain secure authorization flows. This session will break down the protocol design and demonstrate it live, showing how agents can securely authenticate and operate with dynamic permissions.

## Media Evidence
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## Evidence Graph
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## Transcript Status
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## People
- [[bereket-habtemeskel]]
- [[paola-estefania]]

## Notes
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## Synthesis
### Synthesized Breakdown
# Agent Auth ## Conference Context - Date/time: 2026-06-29 · 4:30pm-5:30pm - Track/room: Workshops Day 1 · Track 5 - Speaker(s): Bereket Habtemeskel, Paola Estefania - Session type/status: workshop · confirmed - Track: Workshops Day 1 - Room: Track 5 - Session type: workshop - Status: confirmed ## Session Description Better Auth has grown to 27k GitHub stars and over 1.5M weekly downloads, becoming a popular choice for developers who want to own their authentication stack. We recently introduced Agent Auth, a protocol designed to support autonomous and delegated agents operating services for an organization or a user. It allows agents to dynamically negotiate capabilities, manage access boundaries, and maintain secure authorization flows. This session will break down the protocol design and demonstrate it live, showing how agents can securely authenticate and operate with dynamic permissions.

### Speaker And Company Context
- [[bereket-habtemeskel|Bereket Habtemeskel]] — CEO at [[better-auth|Better Auth]].
- [[paola-estefania|Paola Estefania]] — Staff Engineer at [[better-auth|Better Auth]].

### Topics Covered
- [[agent-security]]
- [[coding-agents]]

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