ThunderID is a lightweight, open-source Identity and Access Management (IAM) engine built to secure access for humans, AI agents, and machines.

Designed for the agentic era, ThunderID provides a developer-first IAM platform and supporting tools for securing applications, APIs, services, and agent-driven workflows across traditional and decentralized identity ecosystems, with post-quantum-ready security built in from the start.

Core design goals of ThunderID include:

• Agent-native identity: Manage AI agents as first-class identities with delegated authority, consent-aware access, traceability, and support for issuing verifiable credentials to agents. ThunderID also aims to expose IAM capabilities through interfaces that agents can use safely and programmatically.
• Decentralized identity: Bridge the adoption gap for relying parties by making it practical for service providers to consume, verify, and trust decentralized identity in real-world applications, including DIDs, verifiable credentials, digital wallets, trust registries, and issuer-verifier-holder interaction models.
• Cloud-native IAM: Provide a lightweight, containerized identity product that can run across on-premises and cloud environments, with declarative identity flows, policies, and configuration suitable for automation, versioning, and GitOps practices.
• Post-quantum-safe security: Build on a crypto-agile foundation where algorithms, key types, signing methods, and token protection mechanisms can evolve over time, including support for post-quantum-safe algorithms and hybrid transition approaches across key management, credential issuance, assertions, and secure service-to-service communication.