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Phillip J. Windley

Washington, D.C.
As seen in: windley.com, Medium, O'Reilly Media, Computerworld, Computerworld Australia, ARN, CircleID, Techworld Australia
I build things; I write code; I void warranties. My latest book is Learning Digital Identity from O'Reilly amzn.to/43WzwDC #identity #zerotrust
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Identity for the Pico Engine

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By Phil Windley, Phillip J. Windley
| windley.com
Summary Version 1.5 of the Pico Engine finally brings identity into the engine itself: passkeys for humans, and OAuth for external apps and webhooks. Here's the shape of the design, why identity is really three problems and not one, and why I shipped the human and third-party layers before the pico-to-pico layer. Today I'm releasing version 1.5 of the Pico Engine.
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The Shape of Context in Agentic Authorization

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By Phil Windley, Phillip J. Windley
| windley.com
Summary In agentic systems, the principal, action, and resource are often unknown until the moment an agent acts, and the context that governs the decision arrives as a flood of signals from many sources. This post looks at how that context takes shape, where each signal is actually consumed, and why a non-directed world of agents still needs decisions that humans can inspect and predict. This post is part of a series on using dynamic authorization to control and coordinate AI agents.
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Manifold API and Sensor Network: Two New Repos

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By Phil Windley, Phillip J. Windley
| windley.com
Summary Cleaning up manifold-api as a prerequisite for the spring conversational interface capstone turned into a complete platform update: Pico Engine 1.0 compatibility, automated bootstrap, centralized notifications, and a Docker-based integration test harness. Once the platform was solid, the old temperature-network had an obvious new home inside Manifold's community framework, so I rewrote it too as an example of how Manifold can be a framework for pico networks.
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