# Agent Night recap: Airlock and intent-based access control

DevFeed: [Agent Night recap: Airlock and intent-based access control](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/agent-night-recap-airlock-and-intent-based-access-control-15990.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://workos.com/blog/agent-night-recap-airlock-intent-based-access-control>)

Author: WorkOS

Published: 2026-08-17T19:04:02Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

Sources: [WorkOS Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/workos-blog.md>)

Topics: [Access Control](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/access-control.md>), [Authorization](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/authorization.md>), [Software Engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/software-engineering.md>)

Tags: [agent](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/agent.md>), [demo](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/demo.md>), [engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/engineering.md>), [least-privilege](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/least-privilege.md>), [recap](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/recap.md>)

## AI overview

A recap of Agent Night presents Airlock, WorkOS's proposed intent-based access control model, and argues that conventional RBAC and least-privilege approaches do not adequately fit agent permissions. It also discusses why software engineering has been an early area of agent adoption.

## Source excerpt

Recap of Agent Night at the Regency Ballroom: why agent permissions break RBAC and least privilege, and a live demo of Airlock, our intent-based access control.