About
MindGarden LLC.
MindGarden is Nick Gamb’s independent research and consulting practice.
Nick Gamb
In identity since 2010, starting with SAML, then federation, OIDC, OAuth, and the unglamorous work of moving real organisations between identity providers without breaking them. That background shapes the current research. The agent problem is not new in kind. It is delegation and trust with the old assumptions removed.
The published research came from somewhere else. Two years of close attention to what language models do under sustained symbolic interaction, written up as five papers on meaning injection, symbolic influence and persona emergence. Both now point at agent identity, which is where the work is.
What MindGarden is hired for
Agent and non-human identity architectureAuthorization when the requesting party is an agent nobody pre-registered: delegation, per-operation scope, proof of possession, and what to audit. Reviewing an existing design, or building one.
Identity security reviewFederation, OIDC, OAuth and SAML in production since 2010, aimed at whatever you have. Migration off a legacy IdP, a broken trust boundary, or a design that needs a second pair of eyes before it ships.
AI security research and advisoryBehavioral influence, prompt and meaning injection, and multi-agent trust exploitation. Where the published research applies to a system you are running, and where it does not.
Writing, talks and walkthroughsStandards work, conference talks, and long-form technical writing. The UMA for Agents collaboration came out of exactly this kind of conversation.