Vestauth – Auth for Agents
I"m the creator of dotenv and dotenvx. A month ago I started building a way for agents to store and rotate secrets as part of dotenvx and I ran into a problem. Agents can't sign themselves up autonomously. They need a way to do this - without a human in the loop. I searched for solutions but wasn't happy with any so I created Vestauth. Here's how it works: It manages both the agent and the provider side. The agent with one command can set up a cryptographic identity avoiding human designed handshake mechanisms like OAuth. And on the provider side there is no management of API keys, no…
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Vestauth is an authentication system designed for autonomous agents to sign up and establish secure identities without human intervention. Built by the creator of dotenv, it uses cryptographic identity establishment instead of traditional OAuth flows. The system handles both agent and provider sides, requiring only a single command for agents to set up and one line of code for providers to verify, eliminating the need for API key management, usernames, passwords, or user databases.
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I"m the creator of dotenv and dotenvx. A month ago I started building a way for agents to store and rotate secrets as part of dotenvx and I ran into a problem. Agents can't sign themselves up autonomously. They need a way to do this - without a human in the loop. I searched for solutions but wasn't happy with any so I created Vestauth. Here's how it works: It manages both the agent and the provider side. The agent with one command can set up a cryptographic identity avoiding human designed handshake mechanisms like OAuth. And on the provider side there is no management of API keys, no username and passwords, no users table even. Authentication works with a single line of code verifying this cryptographically.
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