1Password for Agents (22 October) fills the credential straight into the sign-in form instead of handing it to the agent, and IBM’s Agent Identity (generally available 27 October) gives agents their own accounts in Vault 2.2. It’s the least glamorous idea of the season and quite possibly “the best”.
Sysadmins have been asking for this since long before anyone called it agentic, around late 90s.
Shall we tell them that passwords must die?
Sources: 1Password · Network World · Techzine
