OpenAI's New OAuth Flow Still Requires a localhost Redirect, Paining Cloud Agent Developers

lucasmeijer · x · 2026-09-30

Developer lucasmeijer complains that OpenAI's new OAuth flow, like Anthropic's, requires a redirect to localhost — a poor experience for cloud-hosted agents that can't rely on local callbacks.

The complaint highlights a shared engineering pain point in the coding agent ecosystem: auth flows still assume local development, leaving cloud-deployed agents with a clunky onboarding experience.

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