Teams running modern systems know the truth—most connections aren’t humans. Services talk to services. Bots trigger workflows. Pipelines deploy code without a person touching a keyboard. Yet too many platforms still treat identity as something tied to a single user account.
A Non-Human Identities Feature Request changes that. It demands first-class treatment for API keys, machine agents, service accounts, and automation scripts. It means permissions and access control designed for machines from the start, not retrofitted later. By treating these entities as primary citizens, you remove the brittle hacks: shared “bot” user accounts, hidden credentials buried in scripts, manual rotation that never actually happens.
Implementing a Non-Human Identities Feature Request is more than adding a new object type to a database. It requires an identity model that separates authentication and authorization cleanly. It must allow fine-grained, least-privilege access. It must integrate with secrets management, rotation policies, audit trails, and monitoring. It should work across environments—local dev, staging, production—without changing how code authenticates.