--- title: "Identity & auth — AI theme on Above the Fog" canonical_url: https://abovethefog.app/themes/identity_auth as_of: 2026-09-27 updated: 2026-09-28T22:02:40Z --- # Identity & auth [Home](https://abovethefog.app/index.md) › [Themes](https://abovethefog.app/themes.md) › [Protocols & infra](https://abovethefog.app/themes/protocols_infra.md) › 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](https://abovethefog.app/themes/protocols_infra.md) ## Topics in this theme The tracked topics most present in its stories of the last 7 days: 1. [AI agents](https://abovethefog.app/topics/ai_agents.md) — 175 stories (the 7 days before: 170) 2. [Model Context Protocol](https://abovethefog.app/topics/mcp.md) — 90 stories (the 7 days before: 95) 3. [Claude](https://abovethefog.app/topics/claude.md) — 80 stories (the 7 days before: 69) 4. [Claude Code](https://abovethefog.app/topics/claude_code.md) — 57 stories (the 7 days before: 44) 5. [OpenAI Codex](https://abovethefog.app/topics/codex.md) — 34 stories (the 7 days before: 25) 6. [Cursor](https://abovethefog.app/topics/cursor.md) — 31 stories (the 7 days before: 12) 7. [OpenAI](https://abovethefog.app/topics/openai.md) — 31 stories (the 7 days before: 19) 8. [Meta Muse](https://abovethefog.app/topics/meta_muse.md) — 28 stories (the 7 days before: 5) 9. [ChatGPT](https://abovethefog.app/topics/chatgpt.md) — 25 stories (the 7 days before: 21) 10. [Grok](https://abovethefog.app/topics/grok.md) — 14 stories (the 7 days before: 7) 11. [Anthropic](https://abovethefog.app/topics/anthropic.md) — 14 stories (the 7 days before: 11) 12. [Jev](https://abovethefog.app/topics/jev.md) — 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 | Source | Stories in 7 days | Share | |---|---:|---:| | Reddit | 148 | 34% | | DEV Community (dev.to) | 133 | 31% | | Google News (RSS) | 41 | 9.4% | | Developer forums (Cursor, OpenAI, Hugging Face) | 35 | 8.1% | | Mastodon (fediverse) | 32 | 7.4% | | Hacker News | 21 | 4.8% | | GitHub | 9 | 2.1% | | Tech press (RSS) | 5 | 1.1% | ## Top stories on Sep 27 1. [Claude Code Workflow Harness Change](https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1wr8cw1/) — Reddit (r/ClaudeCode) · Sep 27 · score 1 · 10 comments 2. [Undocumented handlers don't exist to the agent](https://dev.to/marc_kumiko/undocumented-handlers-dont-exist-to-the-agent-e71) — 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](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49862920) — 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](https://dev.to/rojaneerdev/keep-your-api-keys-out-of-your-ai-agent-a-credential-pattern-for-mcp-servers-4cmo) — DEV Community (dev.to) (#ai) · Sep 27 · score 1 · 2 comments 5. [I created a way for Grok Bot to access any website.](https://www.reddit.com/r/grok/comments/1wrah4l/) — 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](https://github.com/caiovicentino/jev-risk-check-provider) — GitHub (caiovicentino) · Sep 27 · score 2 ## Stories per day, last 30 days | Day | Stories | |---|---:| | Sep 27, 2026 | 40 | | Sep 26, 2026 | 54 | | Sep 25, 2026 | 67 | | Sep 24, 2026 | 67 | | Sep 23, 2026 | 59 | | Sep 22, 2026 | 66 | | Sep 21, 2026 | 82 | | Sep 20, 2026 | 39 | | Sep 19, 2026 | 22 | | Sep 18, 2026 | 83 | | Sep 17, 2026 | 80 | | Sep 16, 2026 | 53 | | Sep 15, 2026 | 34 | | Sep 14, 2026 | 43 | | Sep 13, 2026 | 42 | | Sep 12, 2026 | 36 | | Sep 11, 2026 | 46 | | Sep 10, 2026 | 49 | | Sep 9, 2026 | 67 | | Sep 8, 2026 | 42 | | Sep 7, 2026 | 37 | | Sep 6, 2026 | 27 | | Sep 5, 2026 | 39 | | Sep 4, 2026 | 34 | | Sep 3, 2026 | 38 | | Sep 2, 2026 | 46 | | Sep 1, 2026 | 52 | | Aug 31, 2026 | 53 | | Aug 30, 2026 | 32 | | Aug 29, 2026 | 32 | [Open Identity & auth in the interactive map →](https://abovethefog.app/#theme=identity_auth) --- Updated Sep 28, 2026, 22:02 UTC · Data: Above the Fog hype radar [HTML page](https://abovethefog.app/themes/identity_auth) · [llms.txt](https://abovethefog.app/llms.txt) · [About & methodology](https://abovethefog.app/about.md) · [Privacy](https://abovethefog.app/about.md#privacy)