Federated Agent Connector · technical notes

The notes behind the demonstration

What the experiment set out to prove, how the parts fit, what travels on the wire, and what was learned building it. Written as the work was done; the code is the reference.

• The experimentWhat it set out to prove, what passed, and twenty-seven findings along the way.
• ArchitectureWho runs where: the connector, its helpers, the bank, the federation and the partner.
• SequencesEnrolment, the mandate, a call to the partner, and revocation, step by step.
• Mission and purposeWhat an agent is for, said in the federation's own vocabulary, and how the bank caps it.
• On the wireEvery claim in every token and statement, and who checks it.
• Set-up for ClaudeRunning the connector in Claude Desktop and Claude Code, and the extension.
• ProvenanceWhere the reused code came from.

The connector's code is on GitHub; the bank's modules for PingFederate are pf-agentic-identity.