How to manage shared and user credentials with Managed Deep Agents Connections

This post details three methods for managing credentials and secrets for Managed Deep Agents (MDA) to interact with external tools and data. It covers agent-owned secrets (a single shared key), user-owned OAuth through MCP (using Linear as an example), and user-owned OAuth with a custom application. The talk demonstrates the MDA connections CLI for creating and managing connections, LangSmith Studio for running tools and triggering OAuth flows, and the process of registering OAuth apps in the connections catalog. It also shows how to write custom tools that leverage user tokens for actions like searching and creating issues.