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Delegated Authorization for AI Agents: How to Build an Agent with Fine-Grained Permissions - Sohan Maheshwar, AuthZed
Thursday September 17, 2026 12:00 - 12:25 CEST
Auditorium (Ground Floor)
DevOps and Platform teams now work with hundreds of AI Agents in their internal systems. These Agents usually run with credentials that can touch everything, including your production servers. This could lead to prod incidents, unless you have deterministic permission checking to ensure the agents perform only actions that it's authorized to.

This talk will teach you how to add delegated authorization to your AI Agents, at scale.

The presentation covers how the AI Agents have changed the mental model around permissions and why Relationship-Based Access Control (ReBAC) is well suited for this paradigm. You'll learn about the Google Zanzibar model of fine-grained authorization and why it is well-suited for commons Agent-permission patterns such as:
  • Scoped delegation
  • Expiring grants
  • Instant revocation, and 
  • Hierarchical permissions
The talk includes a live demo of a DevOps Agent powered by goose & SpiceDB where you will see how revoking the Agent's staging access automatically suspends production access too, something traditional role-based systems can't express cleanly.



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Sohan Maheshwar

Lead Developer Advocate, AuthZed
Sohan is a Lead Developer Advocate at AuthZed, based in the Netherlands. He started his career as a developer building mobile apps and has been living in the cloud since 2013, in companies such as Amazon, Fermyon and Gupshup. He is also an AAIF Ambassador and an O' Reilly author... Read More →
AGNTCon EU Delegated AuthZ for Agents pdf
Thursday September 17, 2026 12:00 - 12:25 CEST
Auditorium (Ground Floor)
  Building Reliable Agent Systems
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