Agents get an identity, a scope, and a joiner, mover, leaver path.
Okta for AI Agents issues agents their own identity, with the authentication, scope, and lifecycle controls that people already get. Our work is giving non-human identities an owner, a scope, and a lifecycle before an agent rollout.
Okta's agent identity products treat an agent as a first-class principal rather than a borrowed credential. That is the difference between an agent you can review and one you can only hope about.
What it is
Okta for AI Agents issues agents their own identity, with the authentication, scope, and lifecycle controls that people already get. Agent SSO reached general availability in August 2026.
It is for organizations about to put agents into production who have been asked, usually by risk rather than engineering, what those agents will act as and how access ends.
What it does
An agent is a principal
It authenticates as itself rather than borrowing a person's credential or a service account nobody owns.
Scope is explicit
What an agent may reach is granted rather than inherited from whoever created it.
Lifecycle applies
Issued, reviewed, and retired on the same terms as a person, which is what makes an access review complete.
Where it fits
L1, identity and access. This is the layer that makes L4 governable. An agent without its own identity acts as a shared credential, which means nothing above it can attribute an action, scope a permission, or revoke access without breaking something else.
What we do with it
Bringing agents into the identity model
Designing how an agent is issued, scoped, owned, and retired, alongside the human model rather than beside it.
Readiness before rollout
Establishing what already exists and what is already unowned, before adding agents to that population.
Connecting it to the estate
Okta and Atlassian Guard configured as one model, so an agent's access resolves in one place.
Running the review cycle
Agent access reviewed on a cadence rather than at the point somebody asks.
Where it earns its place
An organization piloting agents in production
The pilot succeeds technically and stalls at review, because nobody can say what the agent acted as.
An estate with service accounts nobody owns
Agents added to an unowned population make the population harder to reason about, not easier.
A regulated environment facing an access review
An agent that cannot be enumerated is a finding, whether or not it did anything wrong.
Proof
Of security leaders are confident their identity management can handle agent identities.
Cloud Security Alliance and Strata, 2026.
Of security leaders worry about excessive access held by non-human identities.
Okta Global CISO Insights, 2026.
AI Innovator Finalist, 2026
Atlassian Partner Awards, 2026