Pattern
Workload identity systems (SPIFFE/SPIRE, cloud-provider patterns)
Provide AI agents with cryptographic identity rooted in their deployment context (where they run, what image they run as, what cluster they're in) rather than in human-issued credentials, enabling fine-grained authentication and authorization without long-lived secrets.
Classification — Cryptographic identity for non-human workloads including AI agents.
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