Identity provider for AI Agents and MCP Servers | Descope Agentic Identity Hub

Identity provider for your AI agents

Build secure, enterprise-ready MCP servers and AI agents with standards-based identity infrastructure. Add auth, consent, SSO, access control, credential management, policy controls to your AI systems with the Agentic Identity Hub.

Introducing Agentic Identity Hub

Manage agentic identities, connect MCP servers to AI agents, manage purpose-built AI agent credentials for downstream connections, and enforce granular policies to govern AI agent access.

Here’s how we help

Agent-ready CIAM

Register your product APIs as OAuth-protected resource servers so AI agents get scoped, delegated access without changes to your API logic or existing user auth.

Enterprise-ready MCP servers

Securely expose MCP servers to AI agents with OAuth 2.1, client registration, consent, and Cross-App Access using your customers’ existing identity providers.

Production-ready AI agents

Issue short-lived, scoped credentials purpose-built for AI agents to reach third-party services and backend APIs, so agents never hold your application's token.

Govern internal AI agents

Get a directory of every agent your organization runs, enforce access policies and human-in-the-loop approvals at runtime, and revoke a misbehaving agent instantly.

Agentic Identity Hub capabilities

Authenticate users in your AI apps

Add frictionless, secure user auth to any business or consumer-facing AI app.
Prompt users to reauthenticate during sensitive actions.
Issue sessions that identify users across AI conversations, agents, and background tasks.
Delegate admin with self-service SSO / SCIM setup, user / role / access key mgmt. and Cross-App Access.
Save developer time using no / low code user journeys.

Get a unified view of agentic identities

Get dedicated identities for each AI agent alongside several attributes such as associated users, tenants, tool-level scopes, etc.
Filter, group, and tag agents based on business needs and logic.
Bring in existing workforce / customer IDs to make authorization decisions.
Monitor every AI agent action, identify potential misconfigurations, revoke access for potentially rogue agents.

Secure MCP servers with auth and access control

Securely expose MCP servers to MCP clients with OAuth 2.1 and PKCE.
Support context-aware MCP client registration through DCR and CIMD with agent risk assessment flows.
Assign granular per-agent and per-tool scopes to MCP clients.
Bring Your Own Auth: Federate with existing homegrown or third-party user auth stacks.
Cross-App Access: Accept ID-JAG tokens from your customers' identity providers so their admins manage agent access to your MCP server.

Manage credentials for your AI agents

Issue portable, revocable tokens designed specifically for agents, independent of platform or downstream authentication requirements.
Manage, store, and refresh credentials for AI agents to access third-party or internal services.
Choose from 50+ prebuilt templates or vanilla OAuth and API key implementations.
Leverage presets to connect AI agents to third-party MCP servers.
Request scopes at the user and tenant level for B2C and B2B coverage.

Govern AI agent access to MCP servers, tools & resources

Define authorization controls for per-agent and per-tool access to MCP servers or enterprise resources.
Create policies that take context from the user, tenant, MCP server, agent, JWT claim, and downstream service into account.
Bring in existing workforce / customer IDs for authorization decisions.
Ensure least privilege access and have AI agents progressively request elevated scopes if needed.

Get visibility into the entire AI agent identity lifecycle

Log every AI agent’s identity, the delegating user, and the tools / scopes / MCP servers they have access to.
Identify access misconfigurations and instantly revoke access for potentially rogue or shadow agents.
View detailed audit logs in the Descope dashboard or stream them to your SIEM.

Identity for your AI systems–wherever you build them

Deploy MCP servers with built-in auth and access control with FastMCP and Vercel.
Build full-stack AI apps on Reflex with Descope as the IdP.
Build privacy-preserving MCP servers with Descope and Skyflow.
Protect against threats and data leaks with Descope and Golf.dev.

Frequently asked questions

What does the Descope Agentic Identity Hub do?

The Descope Agentic Identity Hub is a dedicated identity provider for AI agents and MCP servers. It gives your AI agents scoped, ephemeral credentials to access sensitive resources. It integrates natively with OAuth and MCP so you can add auth controls without rebuilding your identity stack or keeping up with these evolving protocols.

Why can’t I use traditional or existing identity systems for AI agents?

Traditional identity falls into two categories: human identities and non-human identities (NHIs). Neither approach fits agents well:

Human credentials (e.g., SSO, passwords) give agents dangerously broad permissions with very limited ways to revoke dynamically.
Non-human credentials (e.g., API keys, service accounts) are static. An agent can’t request elevated access when a task demands it.

How are agent actions audited in the Descope Agentic Identity Hub?

Every action an agent takes is logged in the Descope Agentic Identity Hub and fully exportable to any SIEM provider. Each agentic identity is associated with a user, tenant, and relevant metadata, giving you a clear chain of accountability from agent action back to the delegating user.