Introducing Ory Agent DX — build, run, and ship Ory authentication from inside the AI coding agent your engineers already use, without leaving the chat.
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Software adoption is bottom-up now. Engineers pick their own tools and the organization buys what they're already using — so the win starts on one laptop, not in a procurement cycle. At the same time, the AI coding agent has become the new IDE: Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI and the rest are where developers actually build. Meet them there, or you're not in the conversation.
And yet auth is still a slog. SDKs, redirect URIs, local infrastructure, callback loops — days of plumbing before the first login even works. Whoever makes those first five minutes effortless wins the developer. Ory Agent DX is built to win them. It's the developer-experience value proposition inside Ory Agent Plugins, the counterpart to Ory Agent Security.
Meet Sam. He needs to add login to an app by Friday. The old way looks like this: read six docs pages to choose an SDK, create an account and register an application, configure redirect URIs and CORS by hand, stand up a local auth server to test against, copy-paste boilerplate for five different flows, then debug the callback loop — again. Two days later, still no working login.
So Sam ships a hand-rolled password table instead, and the company quietly inherits the security debt. The failure mode isn't “no Ory” — it's that a capable developer gives up and ships something worse. That's the real cost of bad auth developer experience, and it's exactly what Ory Agent DX removes.
In one sentence: Ory Agent Plugins turn the AI coding agent your developers already use into the fastest way to build, run, and ship Ory authentication.
It never leaves the chat — the engineer works in the agent they already have open. There's no account to start: it loads and works on first run, with no signup and no API key. It brings up a real backend locally, not a mock. And the agent writes the integration for you, scaffolding the SDK, the UI, and every auth page.
Install. One line inside the agent registers everything — skills, commands, and the management tools. It runs in pass-through mode with zero configuration, so every feature works and nothing is ever blocked, with no Ory project required. Teams can evaluate the full experience before anyone creates an account or talks to sales.
Scaffold. Ask in plain English — “add Ory auth to this app,” or “add Google sign-in” — and the matching skill wires up login, registration, recovery, verification, settings, and social providers. These aren't snippets; they're vetted, end-to-end playbooks the agent runs for you.
Run locally. One command spins up a genuine Ory stack on the laptop, complete with a seeded test user you can sign in as immediately. It's fully offline — no signup, no API key, no cloud round-trip — and it mirrors Ory Network one-to-one, so the same code points at production later with no rewrite.
Manage. Identities, OAuth2 clients, and permissions can all be managed straight from the chat, and every action is observable from day one. Developers get visibility for free, long before anyone turns on enforcement.
Ory Agent DX is designed so that adding identity and authorization feels like installing a plugin, not architecting a system. The benefits compound: faster time to market because auth is handled instead of hand-rolled; an open-source core with commercial offerings layered on for production scale; compatibility with the agent harnesses developers already use, so adoption requires no workflow change; and no lock-in to a single LLM, framework, or cloud.
Where most vendors are racing to secure the layer that sits outside the agent, Ory works where the developer actually builds — inside the agent itself — and ships it as something installable in minutes rather than integrated over weeks.
Ory Agent DX delivers the same developer experience across Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, Gemini CLI, OpenCode, and OpenClaw. The same skills, the same local stack, and the same commands are rendered in each agent's native format from one shared core. Developers don't have to pick a winner — every engineer keeps the agent they prefer — and new agents are added as the market moves.
Ory Agent DX and Ory Agent Security are two value propositions of one thing: Ory Agent Plugins. Agent DX is the on-ramp — the lowest-friction way to get value on a single laptop in five minutes. Agent Security is the expansion — the authentication, authorization, and audit that the security team turns on when agents move toward production. Same product, one continuous path: the developer falls in love first, and the governance story closes later. For teams already on Ory, that path simply extends the identity, OAuth, and permissions they already pay for to the build workflow too — no parallel stack, no new vendor.
The agent plugins are free on the Anthropic marketplace and work out of the box with Ory's open source. Pick your harness, install the plugin, and start building — your developers get a real Ory backend on their laptop in one command, login flows scaffolded from a sentence, and zero account to begin.
Explore Ory Agent DX and download the Ory Agent Plugins today.
