A standard GitHub security email reveals that an AI tool named 'hermes agent' was issued its own fine-grained personal access token on a developer's account. The naming convention and separate credential signal that agents are being treated as distinct identities with scoped permissions, not just transient scripts. As developers delegate more work to autonomous agents, platform-level identity management for non-human users becomes a routine occurrence.
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