Descope announced Agentic Identity Hub 3.0, which brings governance, policy enforcement, and auditing to AI agents and MCP servers that organizations run internally.
Descope Unveils Agentic Identity Hub 3.0 to Enhance Governance and Control for AI Agents ↗
What happened
- The release adds an Agentic Governance Suite with a self-service onboarding and approval workflow for AI agents.
- The release adds MCP gateway integrations, with native integration described for agentgateway, an open source project of the Agentic AI Foundation.
- The release adds advanced client authentication supporting private_key_jwt, mutual TLS, SPIFFE and workload identity federation.
- The release adds ID-JAG issuance for internal agents, with policies evaluated on every request.
Why it matters to Signicat
- Descope extends agent identity from external-facing to internal agents, an adjacent area to Signicat's orchestration and authentication lines, with no direct overlap in Signicat's listed products.
Evidence from the source (5 quotes)
- “which provides a self-service onboarding and approval workflow for AI agents” source ↗
- “Descope integrates natively with MCP gateway solutions, including agentgateway, an open source project of the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF)” source ↗
- “Descope supports:” source ↗
- “Policies are evaluated on every request rather than baked into a long-lived credential” source ↗
- “This extends Descope's leading position as an identity layer for external-facing AI agents and MCP servers by also bringing internal AI agent governance into the fold.” source ↗
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