Descope Expands Agentic Identity Hub to Secure Enterprise-Scale AI Agents and MCP Ecosystems

New updates have been reported about Descope.

Descope has launched major enhancements to its Agentic Identity Hub, positioning the company as a core identity infrastructure provider for enterprises deploying AI agents and Model Context Protocol (MCP)–based systems. The upgraded platform allows organizations to manage AI agents as first-class identities alongside human users, apply OAuth 2.1 and granular tool-level scopes to internal and external MCP servers, and enforce enterprise-grade, policy-based access controls. This move targets a critical bottleneck in production AI adoption: identity and security readiness. In a Descope survey of more than 400 identity decision-makers, 88% reported using or planning to use AI agents, yet only 37% had advanced beyond pilot stages, highlighting a gap between experimentation and secure, scalable deployment. Simultaneously, the rapid spread of MCP has surfaced security gaps, including thousands of MCP servers lacking adequate protection, and increased pressure on developers to implement complex standards such as OAuth 2.1, PKCE, Dynamic Client Registration (DCR), and other MCP-recommended specifications.

Descope’s no-code and low-code platform already supports identity journeys for customers, partners, AI agents, and MCP servers at over 1,000 organizations, including high-growth and enterprise users, by offering visual workflow-based configuration instead of custom code. The new Agentic Identity Hub is designed to reduce engineering overhead while strengthening security posture, giving builders standardized, reusable identity abstractions and giving security teams centralized policy governance and lifecycle management for agentic identities. CEO and co-founder Slavik Markovich said traditional identity systems are ill-suited for autonomous, scalable, and non-deterministic AI agents, and framed the Hub as a dedicated identity provider layer for secure AI go-to-market and ongoing protocol compliance. Early adopters such as WisdomAI and Cequence Security report using Descope as the authentication layer for MCP servers and AI gateways serving large enterprise customers, citing reduced tooling and integration work and increased confidence that identity controls are embedded by design. For Descope, these enhancements deepen its role in the emerging agentic AI infrastructure stack, with strategic upside in securing AI-driven applications, APIs, and data access as enterprises move pilots into production at scale.