Clay Seal Identity – Agents need accountability
AI agents are starting to get real access like GitHub tokens, cloud credentials, customer data, deploy permissions. Not coincidentally, the rate of major cybersecurity incidents is rising rapidly. See for yourself: https://epoch.ai/data/cve?view=graph https://genai.owasp.org/resource/state-of-agentic-ai-securit... My friend and I, both AI researchers, are working on fixing this through an open-source project we've just started called Clay Seal. We've started with a simple version of Identity: an open-source way to issue short-lived, verifiable…
Clay Seal Identity – Agents need accountability launched on July 13, 2026 with 5 votes, #4,557 of 24,623 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches.
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Each agent run gets its own short-lived attested credential. A stolen token is not enough. - clayseal/clayseal-identity
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AI agents are starting to get real access like GitHub tokens, cloud credentials, customer data, deploy permissions. Not coincidentally, the rate of major cybersecurity incidents is rising rapidly. See for yourself: https://epoch.ai/data/cve?view=graph…
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