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Auth Thoughts September 2026

Family Accounts, SCIM minus SSO, and other Descope product updates

Auth Thoughts is a monthly newsletter produced by Team Descope, the collective consciousness of everyone at Descope. Read on for product updates, tutorials, and a monthly roundup from the world of customer and agentic identity.

Descope changelog

To paraphrase a quote from Dory the forgetful fish: “Just keep shipping”. Here are some of the latest product updates from Descope:

👪 Family Accounts

Family Accounts Pic (1)

Family Accounts is a relational identity framework to help consumer apps model family relationships without building custom middleware or sharing credentials.

✅Provide identity profiles to dependent users (children, elders, animals) who can’t or shouldn’t log in.

✅Enable family-scoped roles and attributes, including support for a user being part of multiple families with different roles.

✅Implement delegated impersonation with an audit trail that captures who performed the action on whose behalf.

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⚙️ SCIM provisioning without SSO

Descopers can now set up SCIM provisioning for a tenant without configuring an SSO connection first. You also have the option to remove SSO configuration entirely from an SSO Setup Suite link, producing a SCIM-only setup experience for tenants provisioning users without doing SSO logins.

🤖 Updated agentic identity drilldown view

updated agentic identity drilldown

Descopers now have a new drill-down view for any agent identity, with client and user information, registration methods, policy analysis, and audit trails with a logged-period filter. Get a better at-a-glance view at an agent identity and go deeper when you want to.

Catch up on other product updates in our changelog. Have questions? Join our community and visit the #ask-a-descoper channel.

Developer central

Looking for help on how to integrate Descope for a particular framework? Our DevRel team and developer community have you covered.

JWT decoder

This blog walks through how to decode a JWT, the difference between decoding and verification, and common mistakes to avoid with JWT authentication (all using Descope’s JWT Guru developer tool).