Oauth solved human identity, JWT’s solved API authentication, But neither was designed for agents. Agents are entities that act autonomously, persist across sessions and accumulate permissions over time and can be compromised without anyone noticing. Agent Auth is the first protocol i have read so far that treats agent identity as a first class problem. The Problem Nobody Has Solved … Yet The problem has three…

I’m Brian Mwangi — a software engineer and AI infrastructure engineer based in Nairobi, Kenya. This blog is where I’ll share what I’m building and what I’m learning as I go: the systems behind agents, practical AI infrastructure, and the occasional deep dive into tools that feel “too magical” until you open them up and see the moving parts. This first post is an orientation: a snapshot of the technical threads I’m…