Your agents shouldn't need you to set them up

The article argues that current platforms like Slack and Discord force repetitive manual setup for each new agent—creating accounts, generating tokens, assigning permissions—because they were designed for humans, not autonomous agents. The author proposes a self-provisioning model where agents register themselves via API on startup, receive scoped tokens, and join channels automatically, with humans only setting one-time policies. This shift is necessary for agent infrastructure to scale beyond a handful of hand-configured bots.