Every AI agent should have its own identity
Shared API keys make AI agents invisible and unaccountable. AI agent identity gives each agent its own credential, its own least-privilege access, and an off switch you can hit the moment something's wrong.
AI agent identity is the practice of treating each agent as its own principal — with a unique, verifiable credential — instead of hiding a fleet of agents behind one shared key. It is the foundation of AI agent access management: you can’t scope, attribute, or revoke access you can’t distinguish.
As agents multiply across teams and workflows, a shared secret becomes both a blind spot and a single point of failure. Per-agent identity replaces it with accountability.
Why per-agent identity matters
Giving every agent its own identity unlocks the controls security teams expect everywhere else:
- Attribution — know exactly which agent took an action.
- Least privilege — grant each agent only the access its task requires.
- Zero standing access — no broad, always-on keys sitting around to be stolen.
- Instant revocation — cut off one agent without rotating a secret shared by all of them.
Identity and access management for AI agents
Prismor enrols each agent with its own cryptographic identity. Access is bound to that identity through policy, so an agent gets exactly the tools and resources it’s entitled to — no more — and every action it takes is tied back to it.
When an agent is decommissioned, compromised, or simply misbehaving, you revoke its identity and its access ends immediately, without disrupting the rest of your fleet.
Frequently asked questions
What is AI agent identity?
AI agent identity is giving each AI agent its own verifiable credential instead of a shared key, so its access can be scoped with least privilege, its actions attributed to it, and its access revoked independently.
What is AI agent identity and access management?
It is the discipline of issuing per-agent identities and binding least-privilege access to them, so every agent has exactly the permissions its task requires and can be revoked instantly.