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Expand Up @@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ Microsoft.Identity.Web makes it easy to call protected APIs without manually man
- **Microsoft Graph** - Use `GraphServiceClient` with automatic token acquisition
- **Azure SDKs** - Use `TokenCredential` implementations that integrate with Microsoft.Identity.Web
- **Your Own APIs** - Use `IDownstreamApi` or `IAuthorizationHeaderProvider` for seamless API calls
- **Agent Identity APIs** - Call APIs on behalf of managed identities or service principals with automatic credential handling
- **Agent Identity APIs** - Call APIs as autonomous agents, interactive agents, or agent user identities

Authentication headers are automatically added to your requests, and tokens are acquired and cached transparently. See the [Calling Downstream APIs documentation](./calling-downstream-apis/calling-downstream-apis-README.md) and [Daemon Applications](./getting-started/daemon-app.md) and [Agent Identities guide](./calling-downstream-apis/AgentIdentities-Readme.md) for complete details.

Expand Down Expand Up @@ -181,7 +181,7 @@ var result = await api.GetForAppAsync<IEnumerable<MyData>>("MyApi");
**Supported Scenarios:**
- **Standard Daemon** - Client credentials for app-only tokens
- **Autonomous Agents** - Agent identities for app-only tokens with isolated identity.
- **Agent User Identity** - Agent identities for user agent tokens without user interaction (Same thing)
- **Agent User Identity** - Delegated tokens for a user identity assigned to an agent

⚠️ For agent scenarios, be sure to run them in a secure environment. That's a confidential client!

Expand Down Expand Up @@ -242,7 +242,7 @@ Microsoft.Identity.Web supports multiple ways to authenticate your application:
- [Web Applications](./getting-started/quickstart-webapp.md) - Sign-in users, call APIs
- [Web APIs](./getting-started/quickstart-webapi.md) - Protect APIs, call downstream services
- [Daemon Applications](./getting-started/daemon-app.md) - Background services, autonomous agents, agent user identities
- [Agent identities](./calling-downstream-apis/AgentIdentities-Readme.md) for protected web APIs interpersonating agent identities or validating tokens from agent identities.
- [Agent identities](./calling-downstream-apis/AgentIdentities-Readme.md) - Acquire and validate tokens for autonomous agents, interactive agents, and agent user identities


### Authentication & Tokens
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