a2z-ice/AAuthSpiffe

AAuthSpiffe addresses a critical bottleneck in AI agent deployment: how to handle authentication without hardcoding API keys or secrets in agent environments. By combining SPIFFE (the CNCF standard for workload identity) with Keycloak and the emerging Model Context Protocol (MCP), it provides a pathway for 'identity-native' agents. However, with 0 stars and no forks at 26 days old, it currently exists as a personal experiment or early-stage reference architecture rather than a viable product. The defensibility is minimal because it relies entirely on existing, mature open-source components (SPIRE, Keycloak); the value is in the configuration and glue code, which is easily replicated. The 'Frontier Risk' is medium because while OpenAI/Anthropic are focused on the models, they are increasingly building their own ecosystem 'storefronts' and identity layers (e.g., OpenAI's GPT store auth) which could render external MCP-based auth schemes redundant for consumer-grade agents. Platform domination risk is high as AWS, Google, and Microsoft already provide managed OIDC/IAM workload identity services (like IAM Roles Anywhere or Workload Identity Federation) that solve this problem for enterprise customers without requiring a self-managed SPIRE/Keycloak stack.