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OAuth and the Identity Gap in Enterprise AI Agentic Deployments
Enterprise AI agents currently rely on OAuth 2.1 and JWT standards that lack the semantic metadata required to distinguish between human delegators and autonomous agents. This "identity gap" creates a security vacuum where agents operate using high-privilege user tokens without unique instance identities, leading to OWASP ASI03: Identity & Privilege Abuse. Because downstream systems cannot differentiate agentic API traffic from human activity, attackers can mask malicious actions as legitimate user behavior, bypassing least-privilege enforcement and creating significant non-repudiation failures in audit logs.