Authonomy Gateway
Identity for AI agents
Your identity stack assumes a human at a keyboard. Your AI agents don't have one.
Why this exists
The agent identity problem
Authentication patterns assume someone clicks a login. Authorization assumes a long-lived OAuth client owns a credential. Audit trails assume one credential per person.
Agents break all three: they act on behalf of many humans, fan out across dozens of systems, and run for hours or days at machine speed. Most of the controls a CISO already paid for stop working when the principal stops being a person.
What the Gateway does
The Gateway gives agents the identity primitives humans already had.
Authonomy Gateway sits in front of the identity systems your enterprise already runs and gives AI agents the same scoped, auditable, revocable access humans get. It's not a new IdP and it doesn't replace one. It sits between the agent and the world.
Three things it does in production.
Mints scoped credentials on demand, per task. Each agent action gets a credential issued at the intersection of the human who delegated the work and the agent doing it — not a long-lived OAuth token sitting in a vault. The downstream service can verify the identity chain cryptographically, not just trust the gateway's audit log.
Consolidates policy at one surface. Enforcement lives at the gateway, not redistributed across every agent or MCP server. One place to define what an agent can do, one place to update it, one place to revoke. CAEP signals from your IdP propagate in real time — when a user is offboarded, their agents lose access immediately, not at the next token expiry.
Captures one audit trail across the whole call chain. Every action, every agent, every delegation step — captured in one queryable record, with the originating human's identity preserved end-to-end. No stitching logs together across MCP servers, no audit-by-proxy where only the gateway knows what happened.
What's different here
Most agent identity tools ask you to adopt a new IdP. We don't.
The category is filling up with tools that solve agent identity by becoming the identity provider for your agents. That works if you don't already have an IdP, or if you're willing to operate two identity systems in parallel — one for humans, one for agents. Most enterprises shouldn't have to.
Authonomy Gateway is built on three architectural commitments that follow from that:
Your existing IdP stays authoritative. The gateway uses your enterprise IdP — typically Okta, but the architecture isn't Okta-specific — as the source of truth for who can do what. Your security team's existing policies, group memberships, and offboarding flows govern agents through the same surface they already govern humans through.
The identity chain is verifiable at the downstream service. Credentials carry the live identity of the human who delegated and the agent acting — not stored vault tokens minted at consent time. Downstream services can verify the chain cryptographically without trusting the gateway's audit log.
Transparent to agents and MCP servers. No SDK to integrate, no consent flow to embed, no application code to change. Agents see a normal MCP server; servers see a normal authenticated request. Drop the gateway in, route through it, and the agent identity layer exists where it didn't before.
The gateway also fronts non-MCP REST targets, so the same identity model applies to legacy applications that agents need to reach.
If you're piloting agents
Where this fits
If your enterprise is piloting agents in production, you're already building pieces of this: token vending logic in your MCP servers, ad-hoc audit logs, one-off scope contracts glued together inside individual workflows.
Authonomy Gateway makes that consolidation a product instead of a side project — so your team can ship agent capabilities without the security debt.
Get in touch
If you're already building parts of this, we'd like to hear what you've learned. If you're about to start, we can save you a few quarters.