# auth.md

## Audience

AI agents and automated clients consuming Dead-People.com public death data.

## Registration

Dead-People.com does **not** require agent registration or OAuth credentials for public machine-readable death feeds, the `dead-people/v1` REST API, or the read-only MCP death tools.

There is no signup form and no client credentials are issued for these public endpoints.

## Supported access method

- **Anonymous / no credential** — call public HTTPS endpoints directly
- Discovery: https://www.dead-people.com/.well-known/oauth-protected-resource
- Authorization server metadata: https://www.dead-people.com/.well-known/oauth-authorization-server
- Register URI (stub; registration not required): https://www.dead-people.com/agent/auth
- Claim URI (stub; claim not required): https://www.dead-people.com/agent/auth/claim
- MCP: https://www.dead-people.com/mcp
- JSON feeds: https://www.dead-people.com/deaths
- Site index for agents: https://www.dead-people.com/llms.txt

## Credential use

Do not send a bearer token for public death feeds. Protected WordPress admin/REST routes (if any) use normal WordPress authentication (e.g. Application Passwords over HTTPS Basic), not agent OAuth registration.

## Policy

Editorial, sources, and citation guidance: https://www.dead-people.com/about-editorial-policy/