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My Weird Prompts · August 17 · 24 min

Cookies as AI Credentials: The Auth Problem

Municipal parking sites, healthcare portals, and internal corporate dashboards have no public APIs — the only way to interact with them is through a browser session. But how do you hand an AI agent a logged-in state when the web was built for humans? This episode explores the cookie export process, the durability limits of session-based authentication, and why there's no refresh-token equivalent for browser cookies. We break down Playwright's storageState, the security boundaries that prevent automated cookie extraction, and the emerging pattern of agentic credential vaults. Episode #839040 — open it directly at myweirdprompts.com/839040

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Municipal parking sites, healthcare portals, and internal corporate dashboards have no public APIs — the only way to interact with them is through a browser session. But how do you hand an AI agent a logged-in state when the web was built for humans? This episode explores the cookie export process, the durability limits of session-based authentication, and why there's no refresh-token equivalent for browser cookies. We break down Playwright's storageState, the security boundaries that prevent automated cookie extraction, and the emerging pattern of agentic credential vaults.

Episode #839040 — open it directly at myweirdprompts.com/839040

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