Uploaded July 2026 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
As soon as you ship an AI agent to production, you're an identity company. You didn't sign up for it, it wasn't on the pitch deck, but you now own three questions: who did it, what was it allowed to do, and can you trace back everything it did?
Recorded live at Vercel Ship 2026 in New York City, Ari Schapiro (VP of Developer-Led Growth, Auth0) and Chris Sev (Director of Developer Relations, Auth0) make the case that the defining challenge of the agent era isn't making agents smarter. It's making them trustworthy.
CHAPTERS
0:00 The boring login guy, vindicated
1:39 Five principles for trustworthy agents
5:05 You're an identity company now
6:17 One key, everything, forever
7:04 Prompt injection: the token has to say no
8:20 The five patterns
11:11 Demo: Knox reads email, searches docs, books Japan
15:52 The audit trail
16:32 The hard part isn't intelligence, it's identity
LINKS
Auth0 → auth0.com
Auth0 Developer Center → developer.auth0.com
Ship 2026 recap → vercel.com/blog/vercel-ship-2026-recap
Start building → vercel.com
FOLLOW VERCEL
X → https://x.com/vercel
LinkedIn → linkedin.com/company/vercel
GitHub → github.com/vercel
#Vercel #VercelShip #Auth0 #AIAgents #Identity #Security
As soon as you ship an AI agent to production, you're an identity company. You didn't sign up for it, it wasn't on the pitch deck, but you now own three questions: who did it, what was it allowed to do, and can you trace back everything it did?
Recorded live at Vercel Ship 2026 in New York City, Ari Schapiro (VP of Developer-Led Growth, Auth0) and Chris Sev (Director of Developer Relations, Auth0) make the case that the defining challenge of the agent era isn't making agents smarter. It's making them trustworthy.
CHAPTERS
0:00 The boring login guy, vindicated
1:39 Five principles for trustworthy agents
5:05 You're an identity company now
6:17 One key, everything, forever
7:04 Prompt injection: the token has to say no
8:20 The five patterns
11:11 Demo: Knox reads email, searches docs, books Japan
15:52 The audit trail
16:32 The hard part isn't intelligence, it's identity
LINKS
Auth0 → auth0.com
Auth0 Developer Center → developer.auth0.com
Ship 2026 recap → vercel.com/blog/vercel-ship-2026-recap
Start building → vercel.com
FOLLOW VERCEL
X → https://x.com/vercel
LinkedIn → linkedin.com/company/vercel
GitHub → github.com/vercel
#Vercel #VercelShip #Auth0 #AIAgents #Identity #Security
