{"slug":"cross-platform-agent-identity","title":"A reference architecture for cross-platform agent identity","summary":"Five components, one human root, every cloud. The reference architecture that survives the boundary platform-specific identities cannot.","lede":"A typical 2026 enterprise runs agents across AWS, Azure, GCP, and a dozen SaaS. Each platform vendor identifies inside their walls; none names the human across the boundary.","date":"2026-05-04","reading_time":"5 min","category":"Developer","tags":["architecture","cross-platform","reference"],"image":"https://cdn.twc.sh/images/igcache/Cross%20Platform%20Identity/1500_900/blog.jpg","url":"/blog/cross-platform-agent-identity.html","wordcount":680,"related":["seven-layers-of-trust","mcp-identity-12-lines","oauth-to-agentauth"],"schema":"TechArticle"}