Yadnesh Salvi

Story · Cloudflare (Agents)

From all-or-nothing to task-based OAuth consent (Cloudflare (Agents))

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Five small locked hatches in a row on a wall. A hand extends one small key from a ring of five toward a hatch, while a huge unused master key with a cobweb at its base leans against the wall.

Cloudflare OAuth now supports optional scopes, so a user can grant an app the access one task needs instead of an all-or-nothing permission set. Your agent's consent flow gets a narrower grant to ask for.

In plain words

  • Cloudflare changed its login permission system so users can approve only the access needed for a particular task.
  • App builders can mark some permissions as optional instead of requiring every requested permission at once.
  • A user can then grant narrower access based on what the app needs to do.
  • This gives users more control and helps developers limit what action-taking artificial intelligence systems may access.

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