Should Every Agent Get Its Own Identity and Short-Lived Scoped Credentials?
iamjessew · reddit · 2026-10-22
Reddit user iamjessew raises an agent-infrastructure design question: most agent setups share one API key or the user's own token, making it hard to audit which agent did what and to revoke one agent without breaking the rest. They ask whether anyone issues per-agent identities with short-lived, scoped credentials, how MCP servers fit into that model, and want real production setups—including ones that turned out to be overkill.
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