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Auth Thoughts May 2026
Admin Portal, tenant user isolation, 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 identity and authentication.
Descope changelog
To paraphrase a quote from Dory the forgetful fish: “Just keep shipping”. Here are some of the latest product updates from Descope:
💼 Admin Portal
Admin Portal Dark Mode
The Descope Admin Portal gives organizations a flexible, hosted way to manage identities, all set up from the Descope Console. This hosted, tenant-aware solution uses Descope Widgets to give organizations a central, branded self-service portal. Users and tenant admins can securely manage identity, access, apps, and admin tasks without your engineering team having to build custom tools from the ground up.
Learn more →
🔒 Tenant-level users
Isolate users per tenant
Tenant-level users is a new project-level toggle that flips Descope's identity model from users being shared across tenants to being fully isolated per tenant. With the setting enabled, the same login ID (alice@example.com) becomes a separate user in each tenant, with independent credentials, MFA state, profile, and history. This is useful for white-label resellers, franchise / multi-brand SaaS platforms, and post M&A identity consolidation.
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.
Build a Claude Gmail agent
This tutorial builds a Claude Gmail agent with auth, scope-based access, and human-in-the-loop powered by Descope.
Read more →
How we built an identity-aware AI coding agent
This blog provides an overview of Shuni, the internal AI coding agent we use at Descope, and how Descope provides the necessary identity controls.
Read more →
MCP auth 101 for developers
This video provides an overview of MCP, covers how the MCP auth handshake works, and highlights the pros and cons of the different client registration methods.
Watch →
Customer spotlight: Collabrios Health
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Collabrios Health, a purpose-built software solution that unifies the care delivery journey and trusted by PACE, aging services, and community-based organizations, was facing delayed customer onboarding and increased engineering overhead due to a patchwork of legacy identity systems.
Descope helped them:
✅ Provide a “single front door” auth experience across all their portals
✅ Cater to tenant-specific security and UX requirements
✅ Simplify customer onboarding with self-service SSO and SCIM
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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