Show HN: OAuth for AI Agents

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8 pointslexokoh3 comments

theres no oauth here, why call it that? its a single source local ephemeral key manager

or have i missed something entirely?

I’ve been experimenting with AI agents lately, and one problem kept coming up: they either get a raw API key with full access or nothing at all. That’s risky, especially if you’re testing agents that can make arbitrary calls.

So I hacked this together.

It lets you wrap agent actions with scoped, short-lived tokens instead of handing over your real API keys.

Right now it:

- Generates scoped, expiring tokens (default 10s)

- Logs every action to kage-keys.log

- Works as a drop-in wrapper for async functions

It’s just an MVP (tokens are fake UUIDs), but I want to see if developers find this helpful before building the production version with real crypto + proxy enforcement.

You didn't answer OP's questions. It's not authentication at all.

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