WorkOS on Changelog Master Feed

Well, friends, I'm here with Michael Greenwich, founder and CEO of WorkOS. Michael, if you didn't know, CLIs are back. They're all the rage. And a major problem I personally have with my CLIs is authorization, authentication. What do you say about WorkOS and auth for CLI? Long live the CLI. We've had a resurgence of it, which I am so thrilled about. We actually have supported CLI off for many years at WorkOS. This is something called the device grant flow. It lets you have that really smooth experience where from your CLI app you're building, you can link out to the browser and have the user authenticate through whatever system they have in your app and then bounce back into the browser. So nobody is pasting their credentials or their secrets into the shell itself. Zero knowledge, zero trust way of building OAuth authorization. It works great for existing CLIs. It also works super great if you're building a CLI specifically for agents, which is kind of all the rage now as people are expanding upon that. So WorkOS that we think is the fastest way to do it, and you can actually do it without migrating your entire user base. You can just layer on the CLI auth because WorkOS is so modular. You can just add that in front. We have people doing this for MCP as well, where they just use WorkOS for the MCP authentication gateway and not for the primary, you know, identity stack. So it's totally possible today, and I I think WorkOS is the fastest way to ship off in your CLI app you're building.