ThunderID: The Open Source IAM Stack Built for Agents, Ready for Quantum, Open by Design
Open source IAM has shaped identity infrastructure for decades. It gave real alternatives to proprietary software, made identity tooling free and accessible to anyone. That work mattered, and it still does.
Most open source IAM projects started more than a decade ago. Humans were the only intelligent actors in a system, and machines followed instructions without reasoning about them. Quantum computing was a research topic, distributed identity infrastructure was still emerging, and deployment practices like GitOps did not exist yet. The design decisions made then reflected that world well.
That world has changed. AI agents are running in production, holding credentials, calling APIs, and acting on behalf of users and services. Cyberattacks such as harvest-now-decrypt-later and trust-now-forge-later are real. Digital wallet ecosystems are maturing, and modern teams use containerized deployments and practice GitOps. Open source IAM hasn't caught up, and that gap is real. ThunderID is our attempt to close it: a new open source IAM stack built from scratch, designed for the identity problems of this decade and the one that follows.
