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Using SecureAuth Agent Authority

How to connect your AI assistant, link your accounts, and see your activity through SecureAuth Agent Authority

A short guide for everyone in your organization who uses an AI assistant such as Claude Desktop or Claude Code to work with company tools and data. It's written for end users, not administrators: your IT team has set up SecureAuth Agent Authority and handles the configuration, so there's nothing for you to set up or understand. This page walks you through connecting to it, linking your accounts, and seeing what your assistant has done on your behalf.

Your user portal link

Your administrator will give you a link to the user portal. It opens the Quickstart page, which lists the AI assistants your organization supports and the steps to connect each one. If you don't have the link yet, ask your administrator.

Administrators: open Agent Instances and click Copy portal link to get the link to share. See Share the portal link.

Why your organization uses Agent Authority

Your assistant can act on your behalf: draft a reply, post an update, open a pull request. Agent Authority is what lets your organization allow that safely. It gives your assistant an identity tied to you, so your assistant works with your own accounts and never reaches further than you can, and it keeps a record of what was done.

What that means day to day depends on the work you do:

What your assistant can do depends on the work you do. Three examples, each passing through SecureAuth Agent Authority, which applies your own limits: for everyday work in Microsoft 365 the assistant can read mail and draft replies but cannot send, delete, or forward it; for team updates in Slack it can read and post in one channel but cannot reach the rest of Slack; for working on code in GitHub it can open and review pull requests but cannot delete code or skip review. These are examples only, and your organization's administrators decide what your assistant can do.Agent AuthorityApplies your limitsEveryday workMicrosoft 365Can read mail and draft repliesCannot send, delete, or forward itTeam updatesSlackCan read and post in one channelCannot reach the rest of SlackWorking on codeGitHubCan open and review pull requestsCannot delete code or skip review

These are examples. Your administrators decide which tools your assistant can use and which actions it can take, so your own setup will differ.

Connect your AI assistant

Your IT team has already added the SecureAuth AI Gateway connector to your AI assistant. You don't need to install or configure anything. You just need to find the connector, click it, and authorize it to act on your behalf.

Authorizing opens a sign-in page in your browser. After you sign in, you're granting Agent Authority permission to interact with your organization's tools and resources on your behalf, always using your own identity.

Claude Desktop

  1. In Claude Desktop, go to Settings > Connectors.

  2. Find SecureAuth AI Gateway in your list of connectors and click it.

  3. Click Connect. A browser window opens for sign-in.

  4. Sign in and approve. Your assistant is connected. You're ready to go.

Claude Code

  1. Start Claude Code in your terminal:

    claude

  2. Type /mcp and select SecureAuth AI Gateway.

  3. Choose Authenticate. A browser window opens for sign-in.

  4. Sign in and approve. Your assistant is connected. You're ready to go.

Your assistant now appears on the Agents page.

Using a different assistant?

Cursor, Codex, GitHub Copilot, and more are also supported. Open the Quickstart page in the Agent Authority user portal for the current list and the exact steps for each one.

Agent Authority always acts using your accounts. The first time your assistant tries to use a tool that needs sign-in (for example, sending a Slack message), you'll be asked to link that account once.

Here's what happens:

  1. Your assistant tries to use a tool that requires sign-in.
  2. Agent Authority replies with a link asking you to connect that account.
  3. You click the link and sign in with the service the normal way.
  4. Agent Authority securely stores the result and uses it for you from then on. You don't need to sign in again for that service.

You can also manage these links yourself at any time. Open the Connections page to see every available service and its status:

  • Connect. Start the sign-in flow and link your account.
  • Disconnect. Remove a link and revoke stored access.

Connection statuses:

  • Active. Connected and ready to use.
  • Expired. Needs to be reconnected. Just click Connect again.
  • Revoked. The connection was disconnected. Reconnect it if you need it.

Your connections are yours alone

An assistant acting for you can only use your connections and can only see what your account can see. Another person's assistant can never reach your accounts, and vice versa.

What you'll see

Open your user portal link and sign in. In the left menu you'll find a group called AI Gateway with five pages:

  • Dashboard. Your own activity at a glance.
  • Quickstart. Connect an AI assistant.
  • Agents. The assistants you've connected. Open one to see its client name and version, when it was last active, and which tools it can use.
  • Connections. The accounts you've linked, such as Slack or Jira.
  • Activity. A running list of what your assistants have done for you: which tool, when, and whether it succeeded. This is your own audit trail.

Everything here is yours only. You won't see anyone else's assistants or activity, and they won't see yours.

To stop an assistant from acting for you, disconnect it from Agents. To remove access to a service, use Connections.

FAQ

Identity and sign-in

Where the people who authorize your agents come from — your workspace's own identity pool by default — and how their groups drive policy.

Use cases

Task-focused walkthroughs: real policies, real agents, real resources — from read-only Jira access for Claude to per-team token spend.

On this page

Why your organization uses Agent AuthorityConnect your AI assistantClaude DesktopClaude CodeLink your accountsWhat you'll seeFAQ