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Agent economy
What an agent is allowed to spend, who decided it, and what the payment rails leave to somebody else.
- 4 min readAn agent with a wallet and no mandate is a liabilityThe danger of a spending agent is not that it spends too much. It is that it spends correctly, on instruction, from whoever wrote the page it happened to read. A limit caps the size of that. It does not change the direction.
- 4 min readSix questions for anything that says your agent is authorisedPayment rails for agents are arriving quickly, and every one of them stops at the same boundary: settlement, not authority. Here are six questions that separate a system where somebody actually authorised something from one where the word is decoration.
- 5 min readx402 moves the money. It does not say who allowed itx402 gives an agent a way to pay for a request. It deliberately says nothing about who decided the agent may spend, on what, or up to how much. That question does not go away when payment gets easy — it gets more expensive to get wrong.