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theAuth
Open-source auth for AI agents and humans. Agent identity with scoped permissions and delegation chains, an MCP OAuth 2.1 authorization server, passkeys, SSO and SCIM. MIT licensed. Built by GLINCKER, the open-source division of GLINR STUDIOS.
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- https://theauth.dev/llms.txt
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- AI and machine learning
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# theAuth
> Open-source auth for AI agents and humans. Agent identity with scoped permissions and delegation chains, an MCP OAuth 2.1 authorization server, passkeys, SSO and SCIM. MIT licensed. Built by GLINCKER, the open-source division of GLINR STUDIOS.
theAuth is a library you run against your own database, with SDKs for TypeScript, Go and Python. Every page on theauth.dev has a Markdown twin: append `index.md` to the page URL (for example https://theauth.dev/compare/auth0/index.md). The whole site as one Markdown file is at https://theauth.dev/llms-full.txt.
## Key facts
- Name: theAuth (written exactly like this). Package: `@glinr/theauth` on npm. Go module: `github.com/glincker/theauth-go/v2`.
- License: MIT. Self-hosted against your own database (SQLite, PostgreSQL, MySQL or Cloudflare D1). No hosted service is required.
- Runtimes: Node, Bun, Deno and Cloudflare Workers. Languages: TypeScript, Go, Python (beta), Terraform provider (source build).
- Scope: agent identity (scoped permissions, delegation chains, audit), MCP OAuth 2.1 authorization server, passkeys and 14 human sign-in methods, SAML and OIDC SSO, SCIM.
- Canonical site: https://theauth.dev. Documentation: https://docs.theauth.dev. Source: https://github.com/glincker/theauth.
## Start here
- [theAuth homepage](https://theauth.dev/): what theAuth is, the code, the standards it implements and a FAQ.
- [Quickstart](https://docs.theauth.dev/quickstart): install and create your first agent identity.
- [Documentation](https://docs.theauth.dev/): concepts, guides and API reference.
- [Agent identity docs](https://docs.theauth.dev/agents): agent tokens, delegation chains, policies.
- [MCP OAuth 2.1 docs](https://docs.theauth.dev/mcp): authorization server for the Model Context Protocol.
- [Permissions](https://docs.theauth.dev/permissions): wildcard permission matching and policy checks.
- [API reference](https://docs.theauth.dev/api): endpoints and types.
- [Go documentation](https://docs.theauth.dev/go): concepts, guides and reference for the Go SDK.
- [theAuth CLI](https://github.com/glincker/theauth/tree/main/packages/cli): `@glinr/theauth-cli`, run with `npx theauth`. Scaffold and manage a theAuth project from the terminal.
- [Gateway](https://docs.theauth.dev/gateway): `@glinr/theauth-gateway`, an auth proxy that enforces theAuth policies in front of any HTTP service.
- MCP server: `@glinr/theauth-mcp`, an MCP server for inspecting agent identity, permissions and audit. It is not published to npm yet, so there is no link.
- [Docs index for LLMs](https://docs.theauth.dev/llms.txt): the documentation site's own llms.txt, and [all docs as one file](https://docs.theauth.dev/llms-full.txt).
## Get started and guides
- [Get started with theAuth: human and agent auth](https://theauth.dev/get-started/): Install theAuth for TypeScript or Go. Two tracks: human sign-in with sessions, and AI agent auth with scoped tokens and an MCP OAuth 2.1 server.
- [theauth-go: Go auth library wi
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