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Stop Giving AI Agents Your Master Password: UCAN Delegation

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Why handing a permanent API key to an autonomous AI agent is a bad idea — and a simpler way to grant it just enough trust, for just long enough, using cryptographic "visas" called UCANs. Status: work in progress. This is an early write-up of something I'm actively building, not a finished product a…

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  1. 2026-08-23 08:02 · DEV Community — AI
    Stop Giving AI Agents Your Master Password: UCAN Delegation

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