Kontext is an identity platform designed for AI applications that enables agents to use real user credentials securely. It lets developers connect users’ GitHub, Slack, Google, and other accounts via a hosted OAuth flow, then issues scoped, short‑lived credentials based on organization, user, and app policies, allowing fine‑grained access control and auditability in milliseconds.
Funding
Funding not disclosed
Founders
Product
Problem
AI agents often need to act on behalf of users across third‑party services, but existing approaches rely on static API keys or manual credential sharing, which lack granular access control, auditability, and can expose long‑lived secrets.
Solution
Kontext provides an identity platform that enables AI applications to obtain real, scoped credentials for services such as GitHub, Slack, Google, and others. Users link their accounts through a hosted OAuth flow that requires no code integration from the developer. When an agent requests access, Kontext evaluates organization‑, user‑, and app‑level policies and returns a short‑lived token that is bound to the specific user, agent, and integration. All credential issuance and usage are logged, allowing actions to be traced back to the authorizing user and revoked instantly if needed. The platform delivers these tokens in milliseconds, supporting seamless, secure automation for a variety of AI workloads.
Target Audience
Primary customers are developers and product teams building AI agents, bots, code‑review tools, data pipelines, or research assistants that need secure, user‑scoped access to third‑party services.
Features
- Hosted, no‑code OAuth linking for popular services (GitHub, Slack, Google, Linear, etc.)
- Three‑layer policy engine (organization → user → application) that scopes permissions per request
- Ephemeral, short‑lived tokens that rotate automatically and expire by default
- Full audit trail of credential issuance and integration access, with instant revocation capability
- Single API call (kontext.require()) for agents to obtain verified credentials across any supported integration