Auth.md: an open protocol for agent registration
Auth.md is an open protocol designed to facilitate agent registration for user accounts without requiring a traditional sign-up form. It allows applications to specify how agents can register users on their behalf, including supported flows and scopes. The protocol is not limited to WorkOS infrastructure and can be implemented by any application.
- ▪Auth.md enables agents to register users without a sign-up form.
- ▪It provides a Markdown file that applications host at their domain to guide agents on registration.
- ▪The protocol supports various registration flows, including agent verified and user claimed methods.
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Record
| Original publisher | auth.md |
| Canonical URL | https://workos.com/auth-md |
| Publication time | Fri, 22 May 2026 18:14:29 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-05-22T18:32:02.758Z |
| Last seen | 2026-05-22T18:32:02.758Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | TobtOPEDDFM_ |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
Rights status (four layers)
WeSearch handling by dimension
| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
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auth.md[D] Docs[G] GitHub{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://workos.com/auth-md/#website","url":"https://workos.com/auth-md","name":"auth.md","description":"Enable agents to register users without the sign-up form.","inLanguage":"en","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"WorkOS","url":"https://workos.com/"}}auth.mdEnable agents to register users without the sign-up form. Auth.md provides secure agent registration that any app can implement.Make your app agent ready~/projects/notes-app — opencodeVerifiedAgent verifiedClaimedUser claimed[data-radix-scroll-area-viewport]{scrollbar-width:none;-ms-overflow-style:none;-webkit-overflow-scrolling:touch;}[data-radix-scroll-area-viewport]::-webkit-scrollbar{display:none}Looks like your app is almost finished.
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