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The agentic series

When software agents initiate, validate, and reconcile payments, the question is not whether they can move money but under whose rules. Three essays make the argument.

Part 1 · IdentityAgents are a new principal classSoftware that moves money is not a tool anymore. It is a principal, and it needs an identity discipline of its own: KYA, beside KYB and KYC.August 12, 2026Read the essay

Part 2 · AuthorityAn agent is only as trusted as its mandateAuthority for an agent is inherited, bounded, and revocable. The mandate is the instrument that makes it so: held as evidence, enforced at runtime.August 19, 2026Read the essay

Part 3 · ArchitectureThe control plane for agentic paymentsAgentic payments need a control plane before they need anything else. The series conclusion: one control surface for every principal, human or software.August 26, 2026Read the essay

Where it lands in the product

The series describes shipped architecture, not a roadmap.

Know Your Agent on the Control FabricAgent identity, mandates in the Trust Vault, runtime enforcement, attestation, and the kill switch, in full detail.

Agent-ready orchestrationThe Agent API enters the same capture-to-release pipeline as every other channel, KYA and mandate-checked at the gate.

An agent is only as trusted as its mandate.

See Know Your Agent enforced on the control surface, against your own flows.