Department · Identity & Access Management

Make agent identity part of your existing IAM architecture

Fit agents into the identity architecture you already have — without forcing them into human or service accounts.

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The problem

An agent is not simply a user, service account, or application. It may act for several people, invoke other agents, change tools during a workflow, and operate with different authority in each context.

Mapping every agent to a shared service identity loses the distinction between the agent, the user, and the authority delegated for a specific task. Giving the agent the user’s full token creates excessive access.

Agentic Fabriq introduces a distinct identity and authorization layer for agents while integrating with existing identity providers and access systems.

The stakes

Why this is hard today

  1. 01An agent isn’t a user or a service account — it acts for many people, with different authority for each — and your directory has no box for that.
  2. 02Mapped to a shared service account, every agent action looks the same in the logs, no matter who it was really for.
  3. 03Handing an agent a user’s full token gives it everything that person can do, for a task that needed one thing.
  4. 04When agents hand work to other agents, nobody can say whose authority the final action actually used.
Capabilities

How Fabriq helps IAM teams

Give every agent its own identity — including each running copy of the same agent.Agents stop hiding behind shared service accounts; each one is a distinct identity your access rules can point at, audit, and revoke.
Bind the agent to an owner, application, purpose, and approved capabilities.Identity carries accountability metadata, so every access decision can reference who is responsible and what the agent is for.
Record who handed authority to whom, and for what.Every hand-off is recorded — user to agent, agent to sub-agent — with explicit limits instead of an implied full grant.
Apply user-specific policy to a shared agent.A single agent serving hundreds of employees evaluates each request against that employee’s own permissions, not a one-size-fits-all role.
Evaluate access using human identity, agent identity, and workflow context together.Every access decision weighs all three at once: which person, acting through which agent, inside which workflow.
Keep the hand-off trail across multi-agent workflows.When a coordinating agent hands work to a specialist, the originating user’s authority and its limits travel with the task.
Inherit relevant user and group changes from existing identity systems.Role changes, group moves, and departures flow from your IdP into agent permissions automatically, with no parallel directory to maintain.
Avoid forcing every agent into a human account or broad service account model.Agents get an identity type that fits how they actually behave, instead of distorting your workforce or service-account models.
In practice

Example workflows

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One procurement agent serving hundreds of employees with different purchasing limits.

Each purchase request is evaluated against the requesting employee’s own limit, so one shared agent enforces hundreds of different ceilings.

approval: human approval

A manager temporarily delegating approval authority to an agent for a specific workflow.

The grant covers one workflow and expires on its own instead of becoming standing authority.

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A coordinating agent assigning a narrow task to a specialist sub-agent.

The sub-agent receives only what its narrow task needs — never the coordinator’s full permissions or the user’s full token.

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Revoking a user’s agent access when their department or role changes.

Role changes propagate to every agent acting for that user, narrowing their authority the moment the org chart moves.

Business value

Agents become first-class identities in the model you already run — with the per-user delegation your directory can’t express today.

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