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# 🌍 OAuth3, Mar 25th

- AA the World
- Interop the Worlds
- Automate the World

## 🧭 Overview

This document captures a freeform, high-context jam session exploring the future of identity, authentication, and programmable agency — through the lens of Oauth3, TEEs, and cross-platform coordination. Participants sharing live on what it means to “encumber an account,” enable zero-click login, and design composable apps and agents that move fluidly across the modern web.

The discussion centered on two core tracks:

- **"AA the World"** — grounding identity in secure, expressive delegation via Oauth3, context-aware login flows, and TEE-based enforcement.
- **"Interop the Worlds"** — understanding how blockchains serve as *credible commitment devices* for programmable agents and user-owned identities in Web2+Web3 convergence.

Themes include:
- The tension between frictionless UX and privacy-preserving consent
- How to frame Oauth3 as a standard for intelligent authorization, not just login
- Why TEEs could justify zero-click flows without reintroducing surveillance
- Where wallets, agents, and identity intersect
- Why NFTs are better framed as context-aware access tokens
- And how to build agentic interfaces that interact with legacy APIs and social platforms — without losing trust, context, or user control

This isn’t a formal spec discussion — it’s a high-bandwidth space for convergence, jamming, and prototype visioning across identity, UX, and protocol layers. Think of it as a “roast + reimagine” of what access and identity should look like in the agent-powered internet.

## 🧠 Ideas That Emerged

These are the key conceptual shifts and reframings that surfaced during the jam session:

- **Oauth3 is not just login — it’s the gateway for programmable agents.**  
  Instead of “log me in,” we’re moving toward: “authorize my agent to act with scoped policy.”
- **TEEs justify “bad ideas” (like zero-click login) when trust enforcement is shifted to the enclave.**  
  Privacy no longer requires friction if we trust the execution layer.
- **Apps are agents. Tokens are access keys. Agents + NFTs + TEEs = programmable identity.**  
  We’re redefining apps as policy-driven agents, and NFTs as intent-carrying access credentials.
- **Wallets become intent routers, not just key holders.**  
  The wallet is where delegation logic, consent policy, and execution control converge.

- **Oauth3 as a programmable reverse proxy for humanintention.**  
  It acts as a middle layer between users, agents, and APIs, enforcing programmable consent and composable actions.

## 🔑 Core Questions Emerging

### 1. What is a Login Today?
- Not just authentication — it's **access negotiation**.
- Oauth3 explores “zero-click” or **context-aware** login where apps infer consent.

### 2. Is Zero-Click Login a Good Idea?
- Historically discouraged (privacy/tracking risks).
- With **Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs)**, it may now be safe and usable.
- It's not about clicks — it's about **trust, context, and user control**.

### 3. What is a Wallet?
- More than key storage:
  - A **policy enforcer**
  - A **context-aware agent**
  - A programmable interface for delegated authority

### 4. Where Do Web2 and Web3 Intersect in Apps?
- Web2 = closed APIs, wall gardens.
- Web3 = **composable identity**, portable credentials, programmable permissions.
- Goal: meaningful “encumbrance” of accounts with programmable delegation.

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## 🔐 Wallets as the New Password Managers

One of the underlying shifts discussed is the movement **away from traditional credentials (username + password)** toward **agent-based, context-aware access**.

While password managers weren’t explicitly named, the session consistently circled around the same goal:

> “How do we securely log in a user without needing a username, password, or even email?”

Key takeaways:
- **Magic links and passkeys** were referenced as stepping stones — but still dependent on centralized services.
- **Oauth3 + TEEs** offer an alternative path:
  - Store credentials (like refresh tokens or JWTs) **inside a secure enclave**
  - Delegate usage through **policy-based access**, rather than repetitive logins
  - Enable “zero-click” access via **implicit, context-driven consent** (e.g., wallet connected, app whitelisted)

This frames the **wallet not just as a key manager**, but as a **next-gen password manager**:
- It governs access across services
- It holds verifiable credentials (tokens, attestations)
- It enforces scoped delegation, expiration, and revocation

### ➡️ TL;DR
> **Wallets + OAuth3 + TEEs = programmable passwordless UX**
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> Instead of managing secrets, users manage trust policies — and agents carry out their intent securely.


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## 🧠 Intelligent Context & UX

- **Smart defaults > zero-click**:
  - Detect wallet presence and pre-fill.
  - Infer intent and minimize prompts.
  - Use policy and context to gate interactions.

- Oauth3 becomes an **agent-based UX layer**:
  - Understands intent
  - Handles delegated permission flows
  - Avoids unnecessary user interruption

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## 🧩 Architecture & Standards Direction

- Follow the model of `EIP-1193`:
  - Standardize **message interfaces**, not the implementations.
  - Let devs pack arbitrary policy data into generic payloads.

- TEEs enable:
  - Secure JWK/refresh token storage
  - Proxying auth through trusted computation
  - Enforced policy boundaries with auditability

- SDKs/Templates:
  - Don’t standardize every OAuth flow.
  - Build SDK templates per resource provider (Telegram, Twitter, etc.)
  - Encourage “template + rules” architecture.

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## 🎮 Credible Commitments & Game Theory

- Commitments = **delegated, conditional agency**:
  - “Let this group tweet from my account once.”
  - “Allow access to my analytics if you hold this NFT.”

- **NFTs** as:
  - Context-aware access tokens
  - Soft credentials with programmable rules

- Interoperability = **capability transfer**, not just login compatibility.

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## 💥 Use Case Convergences

### 1. Oauth as an Intelligent Agent API
- Not just authentication — **delegation and access policy routing**.
- Example: "Give this agent inbox access for 12h under X policy."

### 2. TikTok Comment Creator Fund
- Delegate publishing rights to AI agents.
- Use Oauth3 & TEEs for:
  - Authenticated content generation
  - Safe posting
  - Identity-mapped reward mechanisms

### 3. Bootstrapping Agent Identity
- Agents need verifiable:
  - Origin
  - Intent
  - Reputation
- Enabled by signed attestations and Oauth3 policy scopes.

### 4. Super Apps as Agents
- SuperApp = Agent with multi-surface access
- Agents interact across APIs, apps, and devices based on:
  - User permissions
  - Context
  - Rules

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## 🎯 Summary of Convergences

| Concept        | Reframed As                                              |
|----------------|----------------------------------------------------------|
| **Oauth3**     | Programmable trust layer + routing middleware            |
| **TEE**        | Boundary of permissioned, verifiable computation         |
| **NFTs**       | Intent-carrying access tokens                            |
| **Apps**       | Agents with behavioral models and scoped permissions     |
| **Web3**       | Programmable delegation and composable user autonomy     |

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