Back to blog
Aawej Pathan3 min read

AI agents don't have an identity. We're fixing that.

Your agent uses your login, not its own. That's the real reason every new tool needs setup from scratch. AgentOnboard gives every agent an ID card.

Your AI agent does not have an identity.

It borrows yours. Every time your agent needs a new tool — GitHub, Notion, Stripe, your database — you set it up by hand. API keys. Tokens. MCP configs. The agent cannot authenticate as itself because it does not have a self.

This is not a minor inconvenience. It is the bottleneck that keeps agents from working across your full stack.

The identity gap

AI agents get smarter every month. They write code, open PRs, browse documentation, analyze data. But the moment an agent needs to act on your behalf across a service you already use, everything stops.

The reason is not intelligence. It is identity.

When you authenticate with a service, you use your identity — a login, an OAuth flow, an API key that represents you. An agent has none of that. It has no identity of its own. So you give it yours. A static key in an env file. A token that never expires. A credential that leaks all the way back to you.

Every new agent means redoing the work. Every new service means another setup. And if a key leaks, you scramble to rotate it everywhere.

What an ID card changes

We built AgentOnboard because we kept hitting this wall ourselves.

We give every agent an ID card. Not a login — an identity it just has. You create your account, create an API key from your dashboard, save it with aon save, and your agent exchanges it for short-lived session tokens whenever it needs to authenticate. When the agent needs to access a service, it presents its token. The service verifies through us. The agent acts for you.

One agent. One setup. Every service that supports AgentOnboard recognizes the ID card automatically.

Add a second agent? Already has access. Add a new service? Every agent can use it. No keys scattered across env files. No OAuth flows designed for humans, not agents. No per-service configuration marathon.

What is live today

We are launching the platform — the identity layer itself. Here is what you can use right now:

  1. Create your account — Sign up with Google or GitHub in seconds.
  2. Give your agent an ID card — Create an API key from your dashboard (label it "My Claude Code" or whatever you want). Save it locally with aon save <key>. Your agent exchanges it for short-lived session tokens with aon token get.
  3. Manage access from one dashboard — See what your agents do, revoke access anytime.
  4. Get ready for the partner network — We are onboarding partners now. The SDK for API providers is live. When services you use integrate, your agents will have access without any new setup.

The first piece is the most important one: identity for your agents. Create your account today and your agents will be ready the moment every service you use supports it.

The future

Identity is the missing piece for AI agents. It is the layer that makes agents independently useful instead of dependent on your manual setup for every tool.

We are moving fast. More partners are onboarding. The SDK is open. If you create your account now, you are set up before the ecosystem catches up.

Give your agent an identity →

Thank you for being here at the start.