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July 16, 2026 · 13 min read
Mandate Matching and Evidence Receipts for Agent Checkout
How to check an agent-initiated purchase against the mandate its principal granted: normalize the mandate, match it field by field, treat "not specified" as not allowed, decide accept/review/decline/step-up, and write a signed evidence receipt your dispute tooling can replay. Written for merchant architecture teams, with the API contract, policy config, and schemas.
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December 5, 2025 · 12 min read
Agent checkout needs verifiable records
KYA ships signed traces, verify recommendations, checkout-session enforcement, and pre-dispute APIs for agent checkout.
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