Anthropic Just Killed the API Key: A Deep Dive into Workload Identity Federation for Claude

RFC 7523 jwt-bearer grant for the Claude API. SPIFFE, EKS IRSA, GitHub Actions OIDC, Kubernetes projected SAs — all federate to short-lived tokens. Here's how it works, how it maps onto the IETF agentic identity blueprint, and the one trap that will cause confused deputy bugs in production.

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