By John Gruber
WorkOS: Let agents use your tools without giving them free rein.
Linked List: November 1, 2026
Sunday, 1 November 2026
- WorkOS: Let Agents Sign Up for Your App Without a Browser ★
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My thanks to WorkOS for sponsoring last week at DF. An agent can’t click through a signup page built for humans, so give it something it can read instead. Publish an auth.md file and agents register themselves without ever touching a browser login, and the user never gets pulled out of what they were doing.
With WorkOS auth.md, enroll in the dashboard and AuthKit publishes the file. Agents read it, register, and get scoped, short-lived credentials you control.