Today’s Agent Infrastructure - why it’s not Enough For the Agentic Enterprise.

OAuth and MCP gave us the foundation for agent access. But as enterprises scale agents beyond Stage 2, a critical gap emerges: the difference between access and authority. This article shows where today's infrastructure breaks down when agents need to make consequential decisions - from purchase order approval to multi-agent delegation - and why closing that gap requires a new architectural layer built on verifiable, transaction-level authorization.

By Armin Ebrahimi & Naveen Agarwal - September 15, 2026