Agents must now identify themselves before they can transact.
From Poppy's discovery files and OAuth permission scoping to Google's coworker agent with its own Workspace email, agent commerce and enterprise work are being rebuilt around persistent, credentialed machine identities that replace the user-impersonation ambiguity behind the season's rogue-agent incidents.
The same conclusion keeps arriving from across the workspace's research — 1 topics independently instantiate this theme. Filter the evidence by where it came from:
The enterprise deployment unit is now a persistent agent with directory presence and its own account, the identity pattern the protocol race is codifying.
The leading agent-commerce standard makes self-identification and scoped customer permission the entry condition for any agent doing business with a company.