ap2-intent-mandate

To authorize autonomous agent purchases for human-not-present transactions, you use an AP2 Intent Mandate. This pre-authorizes your agent to execute transactions within your defined constraints while you are offline.

An AP2 Intent Mandate is a user-signed authorization for agent payments that secures autonomous commerce by enforcing constraints. It ensures agents only transact within approved merchants, SKUs, refundability rules, and time-to-live limits.

You set spending limits and expiry by defining a budget and a time-to-live when creating the Intent Mandate. For example, you can specify a $500 budget with an expiry of 2025-12-31, and the agent will only purchase within those bounds.

Yes, you can restrict your shopping agent to specific merchants and SKUs using constraint enforcement in the Intent Mandate. The mandate validates these parameters against your signed constraints before allowing any purchase.

If an autonomous agent attempts to buy a non-refundable item without permission, the Intent Mandate constraint enforcement blocks the transaction. You define refundability rules in the mandate, and the agent must adhere to them.