Archive for Jul 2026

2 entries

Identity for the Pico Engine

Tue Jul 14 11:52:00 2026

Version 1.5 of the Pico Engine finally brings identity into the engine itself: passkeys for humans, and OAuth for external apps and webhooks. Here's the shape of the design, why identity is really three problems and not one, and why I shipped the human and third-party layers before the pico-to-pico layer.
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The Shape of Context in Agentic Authorization

Mon Jul 6 10:04:00 2026

In agentic systems, the principal, action, and resource are often unknown until the moment an agent acts, and the context that governs the decision arrives as a flood of signals from many sources. This post looks at how that context takes shape, where each signal is actually consumed, and why a non-directed world of agents still needs decisions that humans can inspect and predict.
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