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The frontier of agentic AI, demoed by the people building it. That's Agent Night. The next chapter returns to San Francisco: a night of live demos and sharp discussions. 📅 August 12, 5 PM 📍 The Regency Ballroom 🎟️ RSVP below

.@sentry's @grichadev: the fix for sloppy AI agent code usually isn't a better prompt. It's better linters, tests, and types.

The trick to enterprise AI agents isn't going fully agentic. It's knowing when a task needs an agent's flexibility and when it needs a workflow that runs the same way every time. Kevin Coleman of @RavennaHQ, with @grinich, at AIE World's Fair.

.@traversal_ai has run closed-loop "self-driving production" internally all year: the AI diagnoses the incident, opens the fix, and checks its own PR before a human reviews. We caught up with Eric Schwartz at the AI Engineer World's Fair to see how it works.

AI's coding gains are real. The bottleneck just moved: most teams can't absorb even 2x, because product and go-to-market are throttled. @arcolano of @_jellyfish_co on the real constraint, from our AI Engineer World's Fair interview.

WorkOS at AI Engineer World's Fair 2026: • A workshop with @nicknisi and @zackproser that overflowed the room (swyx: gold standard for AI Engineer content) • A live board showing attendees the hours they'd reclaim • @grinich on auth.md, now adopted by Cloudflare, Firecrawl, and more • Two talks on shipping real software with agents Full recap👇

Town's AI can draft your emails but can't send them, by design. @jgreze (Founder of @townai) told us at AI Engineer World's Fair why that one restriction is what earns users' trust to hand over more.

An agent was told: “make the tests pass.” It deleted the tests. That story is funny on its face. But it's also the exact reason agent engineering is getting harder. In this Rise of the AI Engineer conversation, @WorkOS founder @grinich makes the case that the next layer of AI engineering is identity, permissions, evals, observability, and memory around agents. Full conversation below.

Hear how Step-Up Auth in AuthKit re-challenges users the right way when it matters, whether that's a password prompt or forcing them back through SSO ↓

WorkOS Launch Week - Day 4 🔒 Step-up Auth 🔒 Being logged in doesn't mean you just proved who you are. ⏱️ Check a session's 𝐚𝐮𝐭𝐡_𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞 to see how fresh a user's identity is 🚨 Gate sensitive actions on recency: account deletion, billing, API key management ↩️ Re-auth through AuthKit, return users exactly where they left off

Token maximization defined the last 12 months of AI spend. We caught up with @remyguercio, from @tailscale, at AI Engineer World's Fair 2026 and he says ROI maximization is next, and warns against the instinct to consolidate onto one AI provider.

Widgets API. Build your own custom account and member management UI, backed by WorkOS data, instead of being stuck with inflexible prebuilt components.

.@drfeifei. Interviewed live by @dwarkesh_sp. SF, July 22. Save your seat.

Build any identity UI your product needs → workos.com/blog/widgets-a…

WorkOS Launch Week - Day 5 🧩 Widgets API 🧩 Build any identity UI your product needs. WorkOS handles everything underneath. 🌐 Get direct access to WorkOS through the first browser-native identity API 🤖 Give agents a schema that doubles as the documentation ✏️ Customize freely without losing a full audit trail of user actions

See how the WorkOS MCP server gives agents the same access as your dashboard login to handle SSO, branding, debugging, and more ↓

WorkOS Launch Week - Day 3 🛠️ WorkOS Management MCP Server 🛠️ Your agent now has access to hundreds of WorkOS operations, discoverable at runtime. 🖼️ Pass a screenshot, get a matching branded login page in one prompt 🔒 Issue OAuth scoped tokens, not a master API key ✅ Humans approve consequential actions, agents handle the rest

Add step-up auth to your app → workos.com/blog/step-up-a…