[hawk_aa]

You are hitting on the real problem here. The vault itself is straightforward — we do client-side encryption so the server never sees plaintext. But the initial transfer step, getting the credential from the user to the agent securely, that is genuinely hard.

RFC 8628 is interesting exactly because it separates the authorization surface from wherever the agent runs. We have been looking at similar patterns. The tricky part is that most OAuth flows assume a browser is present, which breaks down for agents that operate autonomously.

What I find even harder though is the cross-organizational case. Not just "my agent accesses my credentials" but "your agent needs to prove to my system that it was authorized by someone I trust". At that point you need identity and authorization as separate layers, and most current solutions kind of mash them together.

Pods in AgentLair give you namespace isolation (each pod gets its own vault, email, keys), which helps for the multi-tenant case. But the trust problem across organizations is still largely unsolved infrastructure-wise.