{
  "slug": "delegation-tokens-explained",
  "title": "How delegation tokens work",
  "summary": "OAuth for AI agents — signed by a human, scoped to a task, time-bound, revocable. Complete primer with JWT example.",
  "lede": "A delegation token is OAuth for AI agents — but designed from the start for the human-agent-tool topology. Signed by a human, scoped to a task, time-bound, revocable in milliseconds.",
  "date": "2026-05-03",
  "reading_time": "5 min",
  "category": "Developer",
  "tags": ["delegation tokens", "JWT", "OAuth", "developer", "MCP"],
  "image": "https://cdn.twc.sh/images/igcache/How%20Delegation%20Tokens%20Work/1500_900/blog.jpg",
  "url": "/blog/delegation-tokens-explained.html",
  "wordcount": 970,
  "related": ["mcp-identity-12-lines", "ai-act-article-14-playbook", "100-things-agents-did"],
  "schema": "Article"
}