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Guide to connecting a real identity provider #99

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The secure-the-API guides stop at https://login.example.com. Engineers need the real --authority and --audience values for the common identity providers, a way to get a token on their own machine, and a clear warning that an empty Authority leaves every endpoint open.

Phase 1: The guide

  • A table of Authority and Audience values for Microsoft Entra ID, Auth0, Amazon Cognito and Keycloak, per web template and MCP
  • Getting a token locally (dotnet user-jwts or the provider's own tool) and using it in Scalar, Presentation.http, Nitro and the MCP Inspector
  • An Aside on what an empty Authority means, linked to the December safe-by-default work

Checks: the site builds, and each provider's values are checked against its own docs.

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  1. self-assigned this
    on Nov 8, 2026
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    on Nov 8, 2026
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