Agents just became first-class identities in the enterprise directory. okta's agent sso, ga since…
agents just became first-class identities in the enterprise directory. okta's agent sso, ga since august 24, registers agents as workload principals in the universal directory, attaching policies to the agent instead of a shared api key.
the security boundary moved from the prompt to the directory.
Context
Okta's press release of 24 August 2026 announces general availability of Agent SSO. It says that for AI agents that support Cross App Access, Okta registers the agent as a first-class identity in Universal Directory alongside human employees and issues short-lived, identity-governed tokens in place of stored credentials, that admins assign, monitor and update agent policy through the same console, and that it is included in core Okta SSO plans at no additional cost.
The date and the scope are supported, with the limit that it covers agents that support the open Cross App Access standard; the release separates this from the broader Okta for AI Agents product, which also finds shadow agents. Workload principals is an API term seen in a docs snippet and was not in the release text. The release says tokens replace stored credentials for such agents, not that every shared API key goes away. That the boundary moved from the prompt to the directory is the author's thesis.
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- Which AI vendors support Cross App Access and Okta for AI Agents pricing.
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