How should autonomous agents authenticate? An MCP developer hunts for a missing primitive
Beneficial-GPBF · reddit · 2026-09-20
A developer building an MCP-based app where AI agents store and retrieve information is stuck on long-lived agent identity: ideally agents could create their own credentials without human intervention and reuse them across sessions, but existing solutions all require users to pre-create credentials in MCP configs. The post asks for solutions to this unsolved agent-auth problem.
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