exe.dev Ships WIF Support: Agents Make OAuth Token Exchange Finally Usable for All
davidcrawshaw · x · 2026-10-29
exe.dev added Workload Identity Federation so VMs can reach Anthropic and OpenAI without long-lived keys. Developer David Crawshaw notes WIF existed for years but OAuth token exchange was too painful outside enterprise settings — now agents can do the toil, making better secret management accessible to everyone. exe.dev offers persistent root VMs via ssh exe.dev plus a coding agent, Shelley.
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