AUTHENTICATION

Vercel Passport is generally available: protect deployments behind Okta, Entra ID, or any OIDC provider, and read a verified identity in app code with getIdentity(). Here is how it works and why it matters.

A practical comparison of the four authentication platforms developers reach for when connecting AI agents to third-party APIs: Arcade, Composio, Nango, and Stytch. OAuth 2.1, MCP support, integration counts, and which to pick by workload.

Vercel acquires the open-source authentication framework that became the go-to Next.js auth solution. HN weighs in on open source sustainability and vendor lock-in concerns.

MCP's new Enterprise-Managed Authorization removes per-user OAuth friction. Anthropic, Okta, Figma, and Linear ship centralized auth for AI agent tooling.