Business Wire reports that Temporal, the open-source durable execution platform that powers agents for OpenAI and Cursor, has brought on the team behind the authorization company Oso to accelerate its work on AI agent security. The goal is to make fine-grained authorization a native part of execution so that identity, access and policy enforcement follow agents as they call tools, act on business-critical data and coordinate work across systems. Temporal co-founder and CEO Samar Abbas said control over an agent’s actions and authority must be as fundamental as the reliability and visibility already built into the execution architecture, and the announcement cites research that 96 percent of permissions go unused, arguing that unlike people, agents will not limit themselves and cannot be allowed to set or expand their own authority.
Oso team joins Temporal to build authorization into AI agent execution
Business Wire reports that Temporal, the open-source durable execution platform that powers agents for OpenAI and Cursor, has brought on the team behind the authorization company Oso to accelerate its work on AI agent security. The goal is to make fine-grained authorization a native part of execution so that identity, access and policy enforcement follow agents as they call tools, act on business-critical data and coordinate work across systems. Temporal co-founder and CEO Samar Abbas said control over an agent's actions and authority must be as fundamental as the reliability and visibility already built into the execution architecture, and the announcement cites research that 96 percent of permissions go unused, arguing that unlike people, agents will not limit themselves and cannot be allowed to set or expand their own authority.
Source: Businesswire