AUTHENTICATION

Vercel Passport is GA: gate deployments behind Okta, Entra ID or any OIDC provider, then read a verified user identity in app code with getIdentity().

AI agent auth platforms compared: Arcade, Composio, Nango, and Stytch on OAuth 2.1, MCP support, integration counts, and which to pick by workload.

Better Auth, the open-source auth framework popular with Next.js developers, is joining Vercel. What it means and why HN is wary of open source acquisitions.

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