In depth
OAuth is how the user authorises an agent to act on their behalf in Slack, Notion, GitHub, Google, Discord. The user clicks a link, the third-party service shows a permission screen, the user approves, the runtime receives a token and stores it in the credential vault. A background loop refreshes tokens before they expire so agents do not break overnight.
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How credentials work on Digitorn: an encrypted vault driven from YAML
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Engineering notes from the Digitorn team. No marketing, no launch announcements, no "10 prompts that will change your life". Just the things we write that we'd want to read.