AUTH FOR THE MACHINE AGE
> Stop shipping with static secrets. Hessra provides ephemeral, delegatable credentials for modern workloads like AI agents and CI/CD pipelines.
It's a new primitive for machine identity. Stronger than API keys, more flexible than SPIFFE. Built in Rust, powered by Biscuit tokens.
> Shrink Your Blast Radius
A compromised CI job or AI agent shouldn't be a catastrophe. Issue short-lived, single-purpose identities that can be delegated with narrowing scope and evaporate after use. Contain threats automatically.
> Build Secure Customer APIs
Stop managing static API keys for your SaaS customers. Empower them to create and delegate their own fine-grained, secure tokens for their integrations, while you retain central control over policy.
> Ship Complex Features, Faster
Our identity model is the foundation for powerful authorization that lets you ship with confidence. Prevent lateral movement by cryptographically chaining service calls. Safely deploy to customer environments with multi-party authorization, giving both you and your customer shared control over policy.
> How It Works
Identity & Token Issuance
Mint a root identity for your service or user via mTLS or OAuth. From this root, you can begin to delegate new, more specific identities for any workload.
Delegation & Distribution
Delegate new, scoped-down identities offline to sub-services, agents, or CI jobs. This cryptographically verifiable chain of authority is created at the edge, without calling back to a central service.
Verify & Enforce Anywhere
Use your delegated identity to request a single-use authorization token for a specific action, or verify the identity itself. Verification is instant, decentralized, and requires no network callbacks to Hessra.
> Use Cases
AI Agents
Give each agent/verifiable sub-agent its own ephemeral identity. Restrict scope by dataset or function. Have agents act as themselves and not masquerade as others.
CI/CD Pipelines
Issue per-job credentials instead of handing pipelines broad cloud/API keys. Your root job can authenticate and delegate to sub-jobs. Identities can evaporate when the jobs do.
Secure Multi-Tenant SaaS
Replace static API keys with a secure, delegatable credential system. Allow your customers to create and manage access for their own integrations and users, reducing your support load and security risk. You control the central policy, they manage their own identities.
Authorization at Scale
Service-to-service calls, edge gateways, Postgres RLS, and more. Single scoped capability tokens that travel with your requests and are verifiable anywhere.
Identity and authorization for the machine age.
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