[samerismail]

Great call on SPIFFE/SPIRE. I looked at it early on it's excellent for workload identity in controlled infrastructure (Kubernetes, service meshes), but it assumes you control the environment your workloads run in.

The agent identity problem is different. AI agents are deployed by third parties, run across organizational boundaries, and interact with services they have no pre-existing trust relationship with. There's no SPIRE server you can install on someone else's OpenClaw instance.

Agent Passport is designed for that gap — lightweight, no infrastructure requirements, works over plain HTTP. But I think there's a real opportunity to bridge the two. An agent that runs inside your infra could get a SPIFFE SVID, and Agent Passport could accept that as an attestation signal in the risk engine. SPIFFE for internal trust, Agent Passport for cross-boundary trust.

The on-behalf-of angle is exactly right too. That's the chain we need: verified human → authorized agent → traceable action. Right now that chain is completely broken.