Auth for Agents: Unblock Autonomous AI with auth.md

Official Schedule Context

• Date/time: 2026-07-01 · 11:40am-12:00pm
• Track/room: Agentic Engineering · Main Stage
• Speaker(s): Michael Grinich
• Session type/status: session · confirmed

Official Description

AI agents are ready to act on users' behalf, but legacy auth flows were built for humans, not

agents. This session introduces auth.md, an open protocol that lets agents register and authenticate

users without sign-up forms, and shares what early implementers have learned since launch. Learn

about the new protocol that Cloudflare, Firecrawl, Cogny, and monday.com are adopting to power agent

registration — authenticating agents without sign-up forms.

Related YouTube Video

CIAM for AI: Authn/Authz for Agents — Michael Grinich, CEO of WorkOS (speaker-match related prior/adjacent AI Engineer video; captions: English auto-captions).

Transcript Status

Related video transcript availability: English auto-captions. Treat this as supporting context, not a recording of this exact scheduled session unless later confirmed. Not fetched yet.

People

• michael grinich

Notes

• Pending transcript synthesis when an official recording or confirmed matching video is available.

Supporting Slides

• youtube D4Dswf __RM slides — extracted from the related public AI Engineer video.