# Your app is the other half of agent SSO

DevFeed: [Your app is the other half of agent SSO](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/your-app-is-the-other-half-of-agent-sso-15992.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://workos.com/blog/agent-sso-resource-app-side>)

Author: WorkOS

Published: 2026-08-31T20:22:53Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

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

Topics: [Single sign-on (SSO)](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/sso.md>), [Authorization](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/authorization.md>), [JSON Web Tokens](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/jwt.md>), [OAuth 2.0](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/oauth2.md>), [computer-use](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/computer-use.md>)

Tags: [ai-agents](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai-agents.md>), [app](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/app.md>), [authorization](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/authorization.md>), [jwt](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/jwt.md>), [oauth-2-0](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/oauth-2-0.md>), [security](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/security.md>), [sso](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/sso.md>)

## AI overview

This commentary explains that Okta's Agent SSO and the Cross App Access standard broker connections between AI agents and enterprise applications, but the connected application remains responsible for validating the grant and issuing its own access token. It describes the resource-side roles and the underlying OAuth and JWT-based standards.

## Source excerpt

Okta's Agent SSO went GA on the Cross App Access standard. The IdP brokers the connection, but your app still has to validate the grant and issue the token.