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Cross-Agent Receipt Auditor

Reconciles the full intent-to-action receipt chain across principal and provider agents.

Detects missing authority, altered artifacts, unacknowledged handoffs and actions that lack a covering principal mandate. This is the evidence a bank reaches for when a customer disputes an agent-initiated payment.

Authority

Monitor and intervene

Team role

Monitors and escalates

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

Passes a defined work product to the next owner

Decision boundary

Monitors continuously and intervenes only within stated limits.

Systems and capabilities involved

  • Receipt ledger

  • Signature verifier

  • Mandate and artifact registries

  • Exception router

Handoffs

What this role gives and receives

Capabilities offered

Audit an agent receipt chain

Verifies that identity, intent, mandate, artifacts, action and outcome form one untampered chain.

Receives:
Correlation id or receipt bundle
Returns:
Complete/incomplete/invalid verdict and exact break point

Context

What the role needs to do the work

Current work
The receipt chain under verification and its candidate break points
Prior interactions
Prior chain verdicts and recurring break patterns per provider
Policies and reference
Receipt, mandate and artifact schemas and signature policies
Working method
Chain-tracing and evidence-preservation playbooks

Illustrative workflow

How the work moves

Starting point

A household disputes an agent-initiated transfer

  1. 01

    Resolve original intent

  2. 02

    Verify mandate and provider identity

  3. 03

    Trace each artifact and action

  4. 04

    Locate break or prove continuity

Result

Auditable chain verdict with the first invalid or missing link

Checks and boundaries

What must be tested or reviewed

  1. 01Finds a single altered artifact in a long chain
  2. 02Missing negative or rejection receipts remain visible
  3. 03Duplicate correlation ids cannot merge unrelated mandates

Human authority

Monitors continuously and intervenes only within stated limits.

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