Identity & auth

Identity & auth is one of the themes Above the Fog’s AI hype radar sorts its stories into, under Protocols & infra. On Sep 27, 2026, 40 kept stories were about it (2.3% of the day, against a 7-day average of 2.3%). 435 stories in 7 days, about as many as the week before.

Stories on Sep 27

40

Share of the day

2.3%

Share, 7-day average

2.3%

Change vs the 7-day average

0 percentage points

Stories in 7 days

435

The 7 days before

354

Week over week

steady (about as many as the week before)

Hands-on share

59% (tutorials, show and tell, questions)

Under

Protocols & infra

Topics in this theme

The tracked topics most present in its stories of the last 7 days:

1. AI agents — 175 stories (the 7 days before: 170)
2. Model Context Protocol — 90 stories (the 7 days before: 95)
3. Claude — 80 stories (the 7 days before: 69)
4. Claude Code — 57 stories (the 7 days before: 44)
5. OpenAI Codex — 34 stories (the 7 days before: 25)
6. Cursor — 31 stories (the 7 days before: 12)
7. OpenAI — 31 stories (the 7 days before: 19)
8. Meta Muse — 28 stories (the 7 days before: 5)
9. ChatGPT — 25 stories (the 7 days before: 21)
10. Grok — 14 stories (the 7 days before: 7)
11. Anthropic — 14 stories (the 7 days before: 11)
12. Jev — 12 stories (the 7 days before: 3)

Companies in its stories

The main company involved in each story, by share of the stories (44% involve none):

• Anthropic — 18%
• Other company — 12%
• OpenAI — 11%
• Amazon — 4.8%
• Meta — 3.5%

Kinds of stories

• Opinion — 23%
• Show and tell — 22%
• Tutorial — 19%
• Question — 18%
• News — 16%
• Research — 1.4%

Where its stories come from

Top stories on Sep 27

1. Claude Code Workflow Harness Change — Reddit (r/ClaudeCode) · Sep 27 · score 1 · 10 comments
2. Undocumented handlers don't exist to the agent — DEV Community (dev.to) (#ai) · Sep 27 · score 0 · 9 comments
3. Show HN: PeerTalk.ai - Let your agent talk to a friend's agent — Hacker News (peertalk.ai) · Sep 27 · score 4 · 3 comments
4. Keep your API keys out of your AI agent: a credential pattern for MCP servers — DEV Community (dev.to) (#ai) · Sep 27 · score 1 · 2 comments
5. I created a way for Grok Bot to access any website. — Reddit (r/grok) · Sep 27 · score 2 · 1 comment
6. caiovicentino/jev-risk-check-provider: x402 risk-check provider: TypeSafe Jev (System One) typed decisions + ES256-signed attestations for agent payments — GitHub (caiovicentino) · Sep 27 · score 2

Stories per day, last 30 days

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