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Proposal: OAuth-based account creation · bluesky-social atproto · Discussion #4587
We recently added to the reference PDS (and underlying OAuth Provider) implementation support for Initiating User Registration via OpenID Connect 1.0, however, what I wasn't aware of when I add...
OAuth scopes (#3806) · bluesky-social/atproto@1899b1f
* style: prefix `id` and `uri` with `request` where applicable * Dynamically validate OAuth scopes * Allow configuring trusted OAuth clients * Improve client validation * Rework authorization t...
Proposal: OAuth Scopes · bluesky-social atproto · Discussion #3655
Note: a more complete proposal was published in July 2025: https://github.com/bluesky-social/proposals/tree/main/0011-auth-scopes We’re continuing work on rolling OAuth out to the atproto network. ...
your app can run its own pds - keith.is
if you’re building on atproto, you’ve probably reached for “sign in with bluesky” as your auth story. it works! the OAuth flow is fine. but every time a user shows up without a bluesky account, you have to send them to bluesky first, watch them get confused by a totally different brand, and hope they come back. that’s a weird seam in your own product.

OAuth Roadmap · bluesky-social atproto · Discussion #2656
OAuth is nigh! Protocol support has been a long time coming and we are pumped. It should greatly improve the user and developer experiences building secure apps and integrations on atproto. And cou...
OAuth for AT Protocol | Bluesky
We are very happy to release the initial specification of OAuth for AT Protocol! This is expected to be the primary authentication and authorization system between atproto client apps and PDS instances going forward, replacing the current flow using App Passwords and createSession over time.

Building OAuth Authentication for Bluesky: A Complete Guide for Web and iOS Apps - Lost in Inference
How to implement secure, standards-compliant OAuth 2.1 + PKCE authentication for AT Protocol apps with separate web and mobile flows
ATProto Integration - poke_around
OAuth, PDS sync, custom lexicons, and user bookmarking via the AT Protocol.

OAuth for ATProto Apps Part 2: Mobile Implementation - Lost in Inference
Part 2 of a 2-part series on implementing OAuth authentication for ATProto (Bluesky) applications.
tijs/atproto-oauth
Framework-agnostic OAuth integration for AT Protocol (Bluesky) applications
OAuth Improvements - AT Protocol
We've been making improvements to the end-user and developer experiences with atproto OAuth.

Claude is inheriting a centralized app-centric bias here (which existing OAuth profiles may share) To wind up in a decentralized world where all "my data" lives on "my PDS" -- regardless of how many atproto apps I authorize to store stuff there for me (see 🧵) -- we should invert that paradigm
Paul Rohr
TL/DR = yes, it's a subtle conceptual shift: - from app-centric (apps control identity/data, delegating access to you at signin) - to identity-centric (you control identity/data, delegating access to apps at signin) Really looking forward to how the team evolves the OAuth UX to address this! /END
3) it still doesn't fully cover all use cases well or at all 4) bsky.app still didn't manage to implement OAuth at all Yes, we should all be moving to OAuth w/ scopes, that's the goal, but give people some slack, it's all still rather fresh, we'll get there… (yes, it's me, I'm those people)
We know picking the right OAuth scopes can be confusing, so we built a tool to help with that. Grab the proper scopes and permission sets from apps across the ecosystem with our new Scope Builder.
Scope Builder - AT Protocol Docs - AT Protocol
atproto.comWe know picking the right OAuth scopes can be confusing, so we built a tool to help with that. Grab the proper scopes and permission sets from apps across the ecosystem with our new Scope Builder.
Scope Builder - AT Protocol Docs - AT Protocol
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