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Mandate & Consent Agent

Binds a principal's intent, authority, limits and consent to a proposed agent action.

Verifies that the action being requested is exactly what the principal authorized, inside amount, time, counterparty and purpose limits. A $1,200 rent mandate covers that payee, that amount and that month only.

Authority

Approve within policy

Team role

Provides independent challenge

Handoffs

Named collaborators

The role

What it owns and where its authority ends

Desk

Identity, Mandates & Discovery

Desk workflow

Verify identity, discover capability, minimize credentials, bind authority and exchange signed artifacts.

Collaboration

Separates preparation from review

Decision boundary

Approves only inside a defined policy and escalation boundary.

Systems and capabilities involved

  • Signed mandate wallet

  • Policy and budget engine

  • Credential verifier

  • Nonce and replay registry

  • Step-up approval channel

Handoffs

What this role gives and receives

Capabilities offered

Verify an action mandate

Returns allow, step-up or deny against the principal's signed authority envelope.

Receives:
Intent/cart mandate, proposed action and provider identity
Returns:
Bound authorization verdict, residual limits and receipt requirements

Context

What the role needs to do the work

Current work
Current mandate, offers, constraints, approvals and negotiation state
Prior interactions
Prior provider interactions, outcomes, receipts and principal feedback
Policies and reference
Principal preferences, policies, holdings and standing instructions
Working method
Approved delegation and escalation playbooks

Illustrative workflow

How the work moves

Starting point

A merchant agent submits a finalized cart

  1. 01

    Verify signatures and nonce

  2. 02

    Match cart to original intent

  3. 03

    Check amount and merchant limits

  4. 04

    Issue bounded authorization verdict

Result

Signed allow/step-up/deny decision with residual authority

Checks and boundaries

What must be tested or reviewed

  1. 01Rejects altered cart, amount, beneficiary or purpose
  2. 02Replayed and expired mandates fail closed
  3. 03Step-up cannot be bypassed by splitting an action

Human authority

  • Principal performs step-up approval outside the agent context

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