SAN FRANCISCO, Might 14, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Right now at AI Council 2026, Keycard, the supplier of identification and entry for AI brokers, introduced Keycard for Multi-Agent Apps, extending its platform to help delegated, session-based entry throughout techniques of autonomous brokers. Keycard lets builders construct apps the place each agent has its personal identification, entry is scoped to every activity and each motion is absolutely attributable throughout brokers, customers and techniques.
“Enterprises are rebuilding enterprise capabilities round AI brokers. Proper now the builders constructing these techniques have to decide on: give brokers broad entry they usually’re ungovernable or lock them down and lose what makes them beneficial,” mentioned Ian Livingstone, co-founder and CEO of Keycard. “Brokers constructed utilizing Keycard do not expertise this trade-off, as they’ve their very own identification, delegate entry per-task and function with no standing privileges or static credentials.”
“We wished our engineers deploying brokers and instruments into manufacturing while not having to be safety or identification specialists. Keycard’s platform made that attainable. We had brokers operating in opposition to manufacturing techniques in days,” mentioned Dennis Yang, Principal Product Supervisor for Generative AI at Chime.
Multi-agent architectures have gotten the usual strategy to constructing AI apps, with specialised brokers more and more being utilized by general-purpose brokers to finish advanced duties throughout software program improvement, operations, gross sales, advertising, finance and extra. The issue is structural: most groups depend on shared API keys, inherited credentials or persistent entry to attach these brokers, none of which restrict entry to what the duty really requires.
That is compounded as brokers acquire extra autonomy: an agent can delete a database or exfiltrate confidential info with none human overseeing it. Conventional approaches to service identification and entry management had been designed for a world of human operators, not agent-to-agent delegation, and with out it, the chance shifts from remoted misuse to systemic failure.
Keycard for Multi-Agent Apps solves this by giving each agent verifiable identification with out long-lived API keys or credentials on disk. Builders can construct brokers and instruments utilizing Keycard’s SDKs for Python and TypeScript. When an agent begins, it robotically receives its identification by means of runtime attestation. When a person or agent initiates a activity, Keycard creates a session that binds each motion to the originating person and request, supporting three delegation patterns:
- Brokers performing on their very own behalf throughout multi-hop workflows, every with scoped identification and delegated entry.
- Brokers performing on behalf of people or different brokers by means of specific delegation, preserving the total chain of authority from the originating person to each downstream agent.
- Brokers impersonating different brokers or people underneath coverage constraints for particular operational workflows, with full audit transparency.
All three patterns use the identical SDK, the identical coverage engine and the identical management aircraft. Brokers uncover and authenticate each other robotically utilizing Shopper ID Metadata Paperwork. As brokers delegate work to different brokers or name instruments, Keycard evaluates coverage as a part of each token change utilizing OAuth 2.0 Token Alternate (RFC 8693), scoping entry to the duty and narrowing permissions at every hop so no agent ever holds extra privilege than the duty requires or coverage permits. Each token within the chain is traceable, revocable and expires with the session.
Keycard for Multi-Agent Apps offers builders the instruments to construct and ship multi-agent apps that work throughout clouds and offers safety groups the controls to manipulate them:
- Import identification, as an alternative of constructing it. Keycard’s SDKs for Python, TypeScript and Go combine with LangChain, Mastra and extra, giving builders identification, delegation and entry management as primitives they will drop into any agent or software.
- Work with any agent. Natively accessible to ChatGPT, Claude, Codex and any agent or software that speaks MCP, A2A or OAuth 2.1 together with OpenClaw and Pi.
- Deploy throughout any platform. Runs on Vercel, Cloudflare, Fly.io, AWS, GCP, Azure and extra. Id travels with the agent with no static secrets and techniques to provision, rotate or defend.
- Join brokers to any software or service. The identical scoped, session-bound credentials that govern agent-to-agent entry work for connecting to APIs, databases and SaaS platforms.
- Management what each agent can do. Builders and safety groups set insurance policies that management which brokers can entry which sources, what they will delegate and the way far permissions can journey. Any change in coverage triggers revocation throughout affected brokers and classes.
- No token administration required. Keycard manages the total token lifecycle, from issuance, storage and rotation to attenuation and revocation, throughout each agent and session.
Behind all of it, the Keycard platform gives identification federation and monitoring through OIDC, SCIM and near-real-time audit logging throughout each agent interplay. It’s the similar system powering Keycard for Coding Brokers. Collectively, they provide organizations a single platform for adopting, constructing, deploying and governing brokers and connecting them to providers, whether or not constructed or purchased.
Keycard for Multi-Agent Apps is offered in early entry. Documentation could be discovered at https://docs.keycard.ai.
Keycard at AI Council 2026
- Keycard co-founder Jared Hanson is giving a chat titled “Id Is the Bottleneck: Why Brokers Pressure a New Safety Mannequin” at this time at 11:30 a.m. PT
- Keycard is co-hosting a “Constructing Inside AI” occasion with Browserbase, Cloudflare and Sentry tonight at 5 p.m. PT targeted on the fast adoption of inner AI and autonomous software program techniques throughout the enterprise
About Keycard
Keycard’s mission is to unlock the facility of AI brokers by giving builders and enterprises the foundations they should construct and undertake trusted agentic functions at scale. Its identification and entry platform gives real-time, contextual guardrails, enabling the transition from static, human-driven workflows to machine-driven, autonomous, agentic functions. Keycard is a remote-first firm and backed by Andreessen Horowitz, boldstart ventures and Acrew Capital. For extra info, go to: https://www.keycard.ai.
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