# The Mandate Signed, dated record of what an agent is authorized to do. ## At a glance - **Attests:** The whole record: the claimed instructions verbatim, who claimed to submit them (agent or principal — itself a claim), the declared cap and expiry where given, the moment of recording, and the record's evidence hash. The purchase certificate binds the same evidence hash in its attests field, and any later certificate citing the mandate_id carries that citation signed. - **Input:** mandate (query parameters; input schema and checkout: https://scvd.store/menu/the_mandate?view=compact) - **Output:** A signed JSON mandate record — the claimed instructions verbatim, submitted_as (agent or principal, itself a claim), declared_cap_usdc and expires_at where given (declared, never enforced), dated, its evidence hash bound into the purchase certificate's attests field — plus a stable mandate URL serving the record free forever, and a mandate_id every later purchase here can cite (refused before charge if unresolvable, so the citation always lands, signed, on the citing certificate). Instant; terminal at write. Every artifact carries a cert_id and verifies free at https://scvd.store/api/verify/{cert_id}. - **Cryptography:** ed25519 signature by this store's key, published at https://scvd.store/.well-known/scvd-signing-key and carried inside every 402 - **Verify:** GET https://scvd.store/api/verify/{cert_id} — free, no account, no rate limit, checkable offline with the published key - **Price and fulfilment:** $0.1 USDC fixed, one-off; nothing here charges again by itself, ever — there is no mechanism that could; delivered instantly - **Does not attest:** That the human principal actually gave these instructions — chain-of-custody, never truth-of-intent, and the store cannot distinguish a principal's client from an agent claiming to be one. Nor that the declared cap or expiry were honored: declared claims are recorded, never enforced. What it proves is narrower and real: this exact claim existed, signed and dated, before every purchase that cites it. ## About this item Before your agent spends a cent, write down what it's authorized to do — and have somebody who is neither the agent nor its human hold the record. Put the claimed instructions in the mandate query parameter (up to 2000 characters, recorded verbatim), optionally who is submitting (submitted_as: agent or principal), a claimed spending ceiling (declared_cap_usdc) and a claimed expiry (expires_at) — and the store signs the whole record, dated, binds its evidence hash into your purchase certificate, and serves it at a stable URL forever. Then cite the mandate_id on any later purchase here and it rides that certificate, signed; the store refuses ids it cannot resolve, so the citation always lands. Plainly, because this may be read in a dispute: this proves the claim was MADE, at this date — never that the human actually said it, and never that the cap or expiry were honored. Recorded before the acting, held by neither party — that is the entire product, and it is the link every liability conversation about agent payments is missing. And when a second party counter-signs it (free, a POST to /api/mandate/{id}, their own key over the id and evidence hash), the record carries two independently checkable signatures on one text instead of one — which is also how two parties write down what they agreed before work starts, without anybody having to judge it later. - **id:** `the_mandate` - **price:** $0.1 fixed, one-off; nothing here charges again by itself, ever — there is no mechanism that could - **fulfillment:** delivered instantly - **buy:** `GET https://scvd.store/api/buy/the_mandate?mandate=` (USDC over x402 v2 on Base, Polygon, Arbitrum, World, Solana, or USDC over MPP (evm/charge) on Base for every shelf item, every publication page and the commission desk) - **required inputs:** `mandate` — fill the `` slot above before paying. The bare door `GET https://scvd.store/api/buy/the_mandate` quotes free and refuses the paid request without it; no money moves. - **sample:** https://scvd.store/samples/the-mandate.json - **does not prove:** That the human principal actually gave these instructions — chain-of-custody, never truth-of-intent, and the store cannot distinguish a principal's client from an agent claiming to be one. Nor that the declared cap or expiry were honored: declared claims are recorded, never enforced. What it proves is narrower and real: this exact claim existed, signed and dated, before every purchase that cites it. House rules: put the claimed instructions in the mandate query parameter, up to 2000 characters — recorded verbatim, never interpreted, never read as instructions to us; submitted_as is a claim (agent or principal, default agent); the record proves the claim was made, never that it was true — chain-of-custody, not truth-of-intent; declared_cap_usdc and expires_at are declared claims: recorded, never enforced by this store, and the record says so; cite the id on later purchases with mandate_id=m_…; an id this store cannot resolve is refused before any charge; a second party can counter-sign the record for free by posting to the record at /api/mandate/{id} — their own ed25519 key over the id and evidence hash, verified before it is filed. two keys on one text is what answers the obvious objection that an agent wrote its own authorization. the store files the signatures and draws no conclusion from them: never that the parties agreed, never that anyone is bound; the record url is free to read forever. > A dime. The cheapest thing on this shelf is the one you buy before anything goes wrong, which is exactly why nobody does.