ZeroID
Open-source identity for AI agents based on OIDF standards
Details
- External ID
- 47690618
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- ZeroID
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- April 8, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 7
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.38817480719794345
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Description
ZeroID is an open-source agent identity platform that automates the "plumbing" of RFC 8693 and SPIRE. It ensures that every sub-agent in a chain has a down-scoped, verifiable identity without the manual overhead of managing certificates and token exchanges.
Enrichment
- Theme
- ai cybersecurity and penetration testing
- Vertical
- Security
- Function
- Compliance & governance
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- AI feature
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- open-source identity provider for ai agents
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Partial Implementing an agent token manager is approachable, but orchestrating strict RFC 8693 token exchange combined with SPIRE mTLS certificate issuance across distributed workloads requires rigorous security infrastructure expertise.
What it would actually take: The architecture requires integrating SPIRE (SPIFFE Runtime Environment) agents and servers to issue X.509 SVIDs to ephemeral processes or containers, alongside an OAuth 2.0 Token Exchange (RFC 8693) authorization server. The system must manage cryptographic delegation chains, strict scope down-scoping, and secure key distribution, requiring deep knowledge of PKI, zero-trust architecture, and identity protocols.
Discussion
5 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: SPIRE (SPIFFE identity management), RFC 8693 Token Exchange (existing standards), Traditional user credential-based agent authorization
Concerns raised: Gap between RFC standards and production implementation, Agents impersonating users, Recursive authority delegation risks, Token revocation propagation challenges
Competitors
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Attention rank: #131 of 258 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 156 days after the earliest competitor.
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- genpark-zero-knowledge-schnorr-protocol-prover-skill · github · 2026-09-09 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- Id-agent · hn · 2026-05-19 · 42 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- MasterID · ph · 2026-09-28 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.45
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