Developer Re-implements AI Agent Authorization Mechanism ID-JAG in Go

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A developer has documented and re-implemented ID-JAG (Identity Assertion JWT Authorization Grant), an emerging authorization mechanism designed to control how AI Agents access protected resources on behalf of users. The mechanism addresses a growing security gap in the AI Agent era, where agents autonomously call internal APIs and tools, creating risks if they hold overly broad permissions through shared API keys or borrowed user tokens. ID-JAG is built on OAuth2 Token Exchange (RFC 8693) and requires every agent action to be traceable to a specific user authorization with a narrow scope and short validity period. Currently an IETF Internet-Draft, it has already seen adoption from organizations like LY Corporation and Okta, and is referenced in the Model Context Protocol (MCP) specification. The developer re-implemented the reference MCP Server in Go, publishing it as kkdai/id-jag-mcp, and shared a detailed walkthrough of the token exchange flow and the Principle of Least Privilege as applied to multi-agent architectures.

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