Agent verification provider
Descope
In short
Descope's October 2026 release lets organisations route requests for new internal agents through review before anything is provisioned, and lets those agents authenticate with certificates in place of static secrets, with MCP gateway integrations. The company says its hub already handles authentication for more than a thousand MCP servers.
- Type
- Verification provider
- Homepage
- descope.com
- In one line
- Customer and agent identity platform whose Agentic Identity Hub gives AI agents and MCP clients OAuth 2.1 access, short-lived scoped credentials and an agent directory with policies, for agents calling a company's APIs rather than crawling its site.
- Last read
- 2026-11-05
What Descope does for this layer
From the vendor's own pages
Descope announced Agentic Identity Hub 3.0 on 15 Oct 2026 from Los Altos, California, adding governance for the AI agents and MCP servers organisations run internally. (descope.com, dated 2026-10-15) Agentic Identity Hub 3.0 added an Agentic Governance Suite in which employees request a new agent and the resources it needs, and the request is reviewed before anything is provisioned. (descope.com, dated 2026-10-15) Descope's 3.0 release integrates with MCP gateways including agentgateway, an open source project of the Agentic AI Foundation, to put one identity and policy layer in front of agents and MCP servers. (descope.com, dated 2026-10-15) Descope's 3.0 release lets agents authenticate with keys and certificates instead of static secrets and issues ID-JAG tokens so internal agents reach MCP servers through the organisation's existing identity provider. (descope.com, dated 2026-10-15)
Descope lets a company register its product APIs as OAuth-protected resource servers so AI agents get scoped, delegated access without changes to the API logic. (descope.com) Descope exposes MCP servers to AI agents with OAuth 2.1, client registration, consent and Cross-App Access through the customer's existing identity providers. (descope.com) Descope's Free Forever plan costs USD 0 for 7,500 monthly active users, 2,000 monthly active consents and 2,000 monthly active tokens; the next plan starts at USD 249 a month. (descope.com)
Claims the vendor makes about itself
Descope says its Agentic Identity Hub handles authentication and access control for 1000+ MCP servers and millions of monthly agentic transactions. (descope.com, dated 2026-10-15) Descope's AI use-case page shows Databricks, You.com, 6Sense and Cequence among its AI customers. (descope.com)
Products and plans
| Product | What it does | Price model | From | As of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Agentic Identity Hub | OAuth 2.1 for MCP servers and APIs, agent credentials, agent directory, policies and audit for AI agents. | free tier, then monthly plans | USD 0 | 2026-11-05 |
Standards
| Standard | Status | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Web Bot Auth | No statement | The AI use-case page and 3.0 release cover OAuth, ID-JAG and client certificates, not Web Bot Auth (checked 2026-11-05). |
Our checks
| Check | Result | Method | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homepage fetch | HTTP 200 | GET with the crawl user agent after a robots.txt check | 2026-11-05 |
What Descope does not do
- Descope does not verify or block crawlers and browsing agents arriving at a public website; it authenticates agents that call APIs and MCP servers the customer runs.
- Descope's governance suite covers agents an organisation registers; agents built and run by outside vendors stay unknown unless they pass through an integrated MCP gateway.
Reading notes
Descope lists You.com as a customer, which does not mean Descope identifies traffic from YouBot.
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Last reviewed 2026-11-05