Conner Simmons

📣 Technical Product Marketer | 👨🏼‍💻 SWE Leader | 💻 Engineer

[Michael Grinich @grinich]

Today WorkOS is launching auth.md

An open protocol for agents to register for services on the web.

We're partnering with @Cloudflare and @Firecrawl as some of the first providers.

Why did we build this? And why now? 🧵

[WorkOS @WorkOS]

Not sure what to expect from MCP Night? This is what it looks like ✨

Agent Mode. May 21, Regency Ballroom.
Register here: https://t.co/G0oyJHa3Rk

[WorkOS @WorkOS]

What does “AI-native” actually look like at WorkOS? On May 19th, we’re showing it live.

RSVP: https://t.co/8DccMdSg2W

[Michael Grinich @grinich]

For the past several months, our engineering team has been building a new agentic coding system designed around a simple idea: the self-driving codebase.

These aren't just agents to write code on demand. They detect triggers, spin up secure sandboxes, gather dynamic context, open PRs, verify their work, unblock the next task, and learn from every failure.

We think the future of software engineering may look more like swarms of event-driven agents, running continuously, with humans setting direction and reviewing the work.

Ramp built Inspect. Stripe built Minions. Spotify built Honk.

We call ours Horizon. 🌅

Read more about what we learned and where it's going next:

[WorkOS @WorkOS]

Our blog bot wrote this post. It also pitched the topic itself.
@Cloudflare Durable Workflows turned what would've been queues + workers + callbacks + checkpointing into step functions.

A multi-model AI pipeline runs durably behind every Slack message, and our team is now publishing like crazy - getting engineering stories and announcements out in minutes that previously would have sat in the backlog for weeks.

https://t.co/vu2qDl8PdA

[Sapphire Ventures @SapphireVC]

If you've logged into Claude through your work account, you've used @WorkOS & probably didn't know it.

WorkOS is the enterprise identity layer powering some of the biggest names in AI: @AnthropicAI, @OpenAI, @perplexity_ai, @xAI, & more. They handle the SSO, authentication, and security infrastructure that turn a consumer product into a secure, enterprise-ready one.

On the heels of co-leading their Series C, @aranum sat down with founder & CEO @grinich to discuss how the security & identity infrastructure we've relied on for decades wasn't built for a world where AI agents act autonomously within your systems, & how WorkOS is building the answer.

🎬 Watch their conversation below to learn more about how WorkOS is defining identity infrastructure for the agentic era. 👇

[WorkOS @WorkOS]

"Weird is necessary but not sufficient for outlier success." @gilbert and @djrosent sat down with @grinich at Acquired Unplugged to share advice for founders.

[WorkOS @WorkOS]

MCP Night is back. And this one's for the agents.

Join fellow AI builders and founders May 21st at The Regency Ballroom for live demos and real conversations on all things agents.

Register today: https://t.co/G0oyJHa3Rk

[WorkOS @WorkOS]

What a night at Acquired Unplugged! A huge thank you to our guests @gilbert, @djrosent, @bcherny, and @GarrettLord, and to the room full of founders.

More from the night coming soon 👀

[WorkOS @WorkOS]

This Wednesday, we're hosting something special for the founder community.

@gilbert and @djrosent of @AcquiredFM sit down live with @bcherny (Creator of Claude Code at @AnthropicAI) and @GarrettLord (CEO & Co-founder of @joinHandshake) to share behind-the-scenes stories you won't hear anywhere else.

Space is limited. https://t.co/IozL3YESTp

[WorkOS @WorkOS]

📣 Second speaker announcement for Acquired Unplugged:

Garrett Lord, co-founder and CEO of Handshake, will join Ben Gilbert and David Rosenthal for a live conversation on building Handshake into the career network for the AI economy.

Space is limited. Register here: https://t.co/IozL3YESTp

[WorkOS @WorkOS]

📣 Speaker announcement for Acquired Unplugged:

Boris Cherny, Head of Claude Code at Anthropic, will be sitting down with Ben Gilbert and David Rosenthal of Acquired Podcast to talk Claude Code and where the AI ecosystem is headed.

Join fellow founders for this behind-the-scenes conversation.

Save your spot: https://t.co/IozL3YESTp

[Lenny Rachitsky @lennysan]

I'm so excited to be partnering with @WorkOS for the upcoming season of Lenny's Podcast.

Instead of rotating sponsors every episode, I'm simplifying: one presenting sponsor for the full quarter (first up, @WorkOS), and a mid-roll supporting sponsor (shoutout @TrustVanta).

Tweeting about WorkOS isn't part of the deal, but they are seriously awesome:
- Anyone who's anyone is a customer: OpenAI, Anthropic, Cursor, Snowflake, Sierra, Vercel, Clay, etc.
- Valued at over $2B with just ~100 employees
- @grinich hosts some of the best tech events in SF

Get your enterprise starter pack right here:
For your SSO needs: https://t.co/dDnWeEbV7E
For your SOC-2 needs: https://t.co/n7M3DywvSL

[WorkOS @WorkOS]

WorkOS Launch Week - Recap

Here's a look back at everything we shipped last week:

📱 Multiple Apps — Manage identity and users across all your apps
📊 AuthKit Analytics — Track user growth directly from the dashboard
🤖 Agent Experience — WorkOS CLI is now a full agent experience within your terminal
🔌 Pipes MCP — Grant your agents secure, time-bound access to third-party tools
🧩 Widget Skills — Generate native, extensible WorkOS UI components for your stack

Demos and launch blogs ↓
https://t.co/p1P2S4GPHI

[Conner Simmons @connerwsimmons]

Closing out Launch Week with Widget Skills!

It’s now incredibly simple to generate WorkOS UI components that are native to your stack and customizable to your exact needs.

Try it out today: 𝗻𝗽𝘅 𝘀𝗸𝗶𝗹𝗹𝘀 𝗮𝗱𝗱 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸𝗼𝘀/𝘀𝗸𝗶𝗹𝗹𝘀

[WorkOS @WorkOS]

WorkOS Launch Week - Day 5

🧩 Widget Skills 🧩

Generate native, extensible WorkOS UI components for your stack.

🏗 Build user management, user profile, and more in your own UI
🧑‍💻 Install with one command and invoke from any AI coding agent
✏️ Own the code and customize to fit your needs

[Conner Simmons @connerwsimmons]

Agents don't need OAuth tokens that last forever. They need session-scoped access for the task at hand!

That's where Pipes MCP comes in.

Get started today: https://t.co/tkCUVudC3o

[WorkOS @WorkOS]

WorkOS Launch Week - Day 4

🔌 Pipes MCP 🔌

Grant your agents secure, time-bound access to third-party tools.

⏳ Issue short-lived credentials that expire between sessions
🛡 Audit every call and keep tokens server-side
📡 Connect to Google, Slack, GitHub, Snowflake, and more

[Conner Simmons @connerwsimmons]

Your terminal just got a whole lot smarter with a collection of skills, tools, and AI auth integration all-in-one.

It’s simpler than ever to get started and building with @WorkOS 🚀

Try it today: 𝗻𝗽𝘅 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸𝗼𝘀@𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀𝘁

[WorkOS @WorkOS]

WorkOS Launch Week - Day 3

🤖 Agent Experience 🤖

WorkOS CLI is now a full agent experience within your terminal.

🧠 Turn any LLM into a WorkOS expert using Skills
🩺 Catch misconfigurations before they ship with 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸𝗼𝘀 𝗱𝗼𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗿
🚀 Integrate AuthKit without signing up

[Conner Simmons @connerwsimmons]

It's your lucky day ☘️ @AuthKit Analytics has landed in your @WorkOS Dashboard!

It's the simplest way to track your user activity without the need for third-party tooling.

[WorkOS @WorkOS]

WorkOS Launch Week - Day 2

📊 @AuthKit Analytics 📊

Track user growth directly from the dashboard.

📈 View daily, weekly, and monthly active users
🔄 Compare new vs. returning users
🏢 Spot your fastest-growing organizations

[Conner Simmons @connerwsimmons]

Follow along all week for each launch ↓
https://t.co/CNyWwk2Lv5

[Conner Simmons @connerwsimmons]

Launch week is back!

We're kicking things off with multiple application support. Each client is now a clearly defined application object in the WorkOS dashboard with separate configs.

[WorkOS @WorkOS]

WorkOS Launch Week - Day 1

📱 Multiple Apps 📱

Manage identity and users across all your apps.

🚪 Sign out of one app without affecting the others
⚙️ Tune session lifetimes independently for each platform
🔐 Handle password resets, invites, and impersonation per app