The Login That Lies: Why Agent Auth Is Still Built for Humans
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Autonomous software agents—programs performing tasks without direct human oversight—hit a digital wall when they reach for protected resources. The wall is the standard login flow: the sequence of steps that verifies who is asking and decides what they may do. Built for a person at a keyboard, it assumes someone is there to click a button. The Model Context Protocol (MCP) , a framework for connecting AI assistants to data sources, shows the friction plainly.
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