Pavan Kulkarni

Engineering @WorkOS

[Michael Grinich @grinich]

Last week at init(), I shared the next chapter of WorkOS.

We’re building infrastructure for a world where humans and agents work together, and anyone can build software.

Three new products with live demos:

1) Airlock
• Give agents access without giving them unlimited access.
• Define your policies in natural language. Let agents work within them, block what’s off-limits, and escalate decisions that need a human.
• No more choosing between approving every action and "dangerously skip permissions." 🤖

2) Atlas
• Turn any idea into a secure internal app with your favorite coding agent.
• Auth, permissions, data connectors, databases, AI gateway, and deployment built in.
• A secure home for everything your team builds. 🌐

3) Passport
• Single-sign on is super annoying, so we fixed it.
• With WorkOS Passport, you're automatically signed in to all your apps.
• Zero sign-on. Just open your Mac and get to work.

We believe companies in this next era won’t simply use AI. They’ll be redesigned around intelligence. And the world will need new infrastructure to power this revolution.

That’s the future we’re building for. Full keynote below:

[Pavan Kulkarni @ipavan]

@mukundrao1989 @AWSreInvent I'll be there this year. Let's catch up!

[Pavan Kulkarni @ipavan]

@Jason https://t.co/dh4nk5VWJA

[Michael Grinich @grinich]

the world needs a standard for agent identity 🤖

auth.md is becoming the default for agent registration https://t.co/SYjzTgGTsq

we're building the next chapter at @workos

come join us :) https://t.co/QQezhrZQRT

[Pavan Kulkarni @ipavan]

@NandanNilekani

[Pavan Kulkarni @ipavan]

@UIDAI Treating exact name match as strict unique identifiers is such a short-sighted design choice, especially for govt processes. Let users attach name variations and key off a numeric ID, with obvious guardrails against fraud. There’s significant GDP lost to fixing this mess.

[Pavan Kulkarni @ipavan]

@TommayC @vladtenev 💯agreed (Unless they route to cheaper models for low net worth folks 😝)

[Pavan Kulkarni @ipavan]

@vladtenev Love your product and your obsession with craft, but could you apply that same rigor to support quality? I got two completely different responses to the exact same question—one from my account and one from my wife’s. Can DM details if needed.

[Pavan Kulkarni @ipavan]

@TommayC @vladtenev No, actual humans over text/email.

[Michael Grinich @grinich]

One week until init() - the conference for builders 🔥

We have an absolutely killer lineup of speakers: @levie, @howietl, @swyx, @clairevo and more.

Best of all, it's free! There's a few spots left. RSVP now: https://t.co/UuWq5ZhmiJ

Sponsored by @Stripe @Cloudflare and @Databricks

[Pavan Kulkarni @ipavan]

Build on WorkOS, Build for the future 🚀

[Michael Grinich @grinich]

AI runs on WorkOS.

From the fastest-growing startups to companies used by millions.

Still kind of wild to see them all in one place 🔥 https://t.co/TkMu60stvQ

[Pavan Kulkarni @ipavan]

Incredible read

[Cursor @cursor_ai]

We're making Git hosting more reliable, performant, and scalable.

This post traces 20 years of Git infrastructure and explains how that history led us to design and operate our Git storage, Origin, as if it were a database.

https://t.co/UW7jHuItSX

[WorkOS @WorkOS]

WorkOS Airlock brings Intent-Based Access Control (IBAC) to your agents.

[Pavan Kulkarni @ipavan]

The team has been cooking up some really cool stuff. If you’re building agents, this event is for you.

Come join us tomorrow at the Regency Ballroom! 🙂

[Michael Grinich @grinich]

AGENT NIGHT is tomorrow at The Regency Ballroom 🌉

The lineup: @swyx · @JayaGup10 · @Altimor · @davidcrawshaw · @bdougieYO · @abhiaiyer · @inazarovaLive

Live demos and sharp discussions, plus a sneak peek of something new from @WorkOS 👀

See you there! https://t.co/yQ85k4kEXX

[Pavan Kulkarni @ipavan]

The future of work is AI teammates.

[Michael Grinich @grinich]

Today we’re launching Atlas, an AI teammate that works alongside your team in Slack.

It answers questions, takes action, and learns how your company works.

Read more and try it today: https://t.co/wnCpmyiYSR

[Michael Grinich @grinich]

Next week is AGENT NIGHT at the Regency Ballroom 🕺🪩💃

Featuring @swyx and @JayaGup10 discussing hot takes on context graphs🔥

Plus lightning demos, including @exedev from @davidcrawshaw

And much, much more 😉

RSVP now before we hit capacity: https://t.co/klTWMUtFR3

[Pavan Kulkarni @ipavan]

@AmberSahdev @deedydas @ashwinravi99 @robbieuthappa We should start an SF league (~cricbay / TCL)

[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? 🧵

[Michael Grinich @grinich]

42% of these are powered by @WorkOS

Many others making the switch to accelerate growth 🚀

https://t.co/oMkfXT48PQ

[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: