Descope launches Envoy to let shop apps accept AI agents

Descope, a company that makes sign-in software for apps and websites, launched Envoy. Envoy lets consumer apps accept personal AI agents that work for their customers. Descope expects that it will be hard to stop agents as more persons shop with agents. Amazon stopped the Muse agent of Meta in September. JPMorgan Chase moved in October to keep external agents away from bank accounts.

How it works

Envoy uses a draft standard, the Personal Agent Protocol, that Meta and Sierra published in October as version 0.1. The business checks which agent calls. It then gives a session that cryptography ties to that agent. The business sets what the agent can do. It can send sensitive tasks to the phone of the customer for approval.

The proof

Descope gave no test results. GoFundMe and GoodRx are launch partners and will work with Descope in the coming months. Descope says its hub for company agents handles more than 1,000 MCP servers. MCP is a standard connection between agents and tools.

What is not known

The standard is only a draft. The source does not say if Amazon or JPMorgan Chase will accept agents through Envoy. Descope says that an agent which signs in with the password of a customer leaves logs that point at the person.

Insight: Meta helps write the rule that its own agent needs

Meta makes Muse, and Amazon stopped it. Meta also helped write the draft standard that Envoy uses. Meta works with Walmart and Stripe on an open standard, and Walmart lets agents in. This looks like a race to make one standard the procedure for stores to accept agents, and Descope sells the gate. Stores that select a standard first can set the rules for others.