# Family Accounts, SCIM minus SSO, and other updates

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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

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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.

Read more →

⚙️ 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).

Read more →

SAML decoder

This blog walks through how to decode a SAML message, debug SAML responses, and the basics of what a SAML response contains (all using Descope’s SAML Guru developer tool).

Read more →

API vs MCP

This blog goes through the pros and cons of using APIs and MCP, how they complement each other, and a live comparison using Descope Management APIs and the Descope MCP server.

Read more →

Ping pong at TechCrunch Disrupt

Skyflow Descope TechCrunch

Join Descope and Skyflow during TechCrunch Disrupt for an evening of connections, cocktails, and competitive ping pong! This event brings together security, privacy, and identity leaders for an evening away from the usual conference setting and plenty of time to connect with peers tackling the same challenges (like how to deal with a spin serve).

RSVP →

Customer spotlight: Collectors

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Collectors is the global leader in third-party grading and certification for collectibles- from trading cards and memorabilia to video games and coins. With over a quarter million monthly active users and millions of M2M credential exchanges, they needed an identity provider that could match that scale and flexibility.

Descope helped Collectors:

✅ Unify identity across consumer login, partner federation, and internal admin SSO

✅ Secure machine authentication with scoped controls per client

✅ Seamlessly migrate from their incumbent IdP with zero downtime

Read their story →

Helpful resources

Thanks for reading Auth Thoughts! If you’d like any other updates from the world of identity and authentication included in this newsletter, please let us know by replying to this email.

Here are some other links to have handy:

🖥️ Sign up for a Descope Free Forever account

✍️ Developer blogs, if you’re looking for tutorials with specific frameworks

📚 Documentation, for Descope setup instructions, SDK code snippets, and more

See you next month!

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