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  "handle": "mandate-card",
  "name": "THE MANDATE CARD",
  "number": "PROPOSED",
  "edition": 1,
  "house": "THE INSTRUMENTS",
  "sigil": "mandate",
  "hue": "#5A1EC8",
  "role": "the authority seat · what an AI agent may spend, signed",
  "tagline": "SIGNED LIMITS · CHECKED BEFORE EVERY PURCHASE · NOTHING PAST THE MANDATE",
  "honest_line": "It checks a purchase against a signed mandate before it is made. It does not move money and cannot stop a payment made outside it — the agent must be built to ask it first.",
  "wakes": [
    "an AI agent that buys, books, pays or subscribes",
    "giving an agent a budget",
    "checking a purchase before it is made",
    "spending by agents on someone's behalf"
  ],
  "loop": [
    "NAME",
    "KEY",
    "SIGN",
    "CHECK",
    "SPEND",
    "LEDGER"
  ],
  "never": [
    "a purchase past the mandate",
    "a key inside a mandate",
    "a changed mandate honoured"
  ],
  "laws": [
    "An agent spends only under a mandate the person signed: a limit for one purchase, a total, the merchants allowed, an end date.",
    "Every purchase is checked against the mandate before it is made. REFUSED means not bought.",
    "The signing key stays on the person's computer. It is never inside a mandate, a prompt or a message.",
    "A mandate changed by one character fails its signature and allows nothing.",
    "Every allowed purchase is recorded, so the total counts what was really spent.",
    "Raising a limit is a new mandate, signed by the person — never an agent's own edit."
  ],
  "box": [
    "SKILL.md · CARD.md",
    "the machine · mandate.py · 9/9",
    "reference · THE-METHOD by hand",
    "START-HERE · TIN · MY-LEDGER",
    "THE-CLAUSES · LICENSE-NOTE",
    "the doors · HOSTS · system prompts",
    "ten tests · faces · audit · witness"
  ],
  "score": null,
  "tier": null,
  "layer": null,
  "score_line": "NOT SCORED HERE · THE SEATING GIVES THE SCORE",
  "proof": "MACHINE ABOARD · SELFTEST 9/9 · 10 TESTS · WITNESSED ON REAL WORK",
  "cut": "2026-10-03",
  "from": "his word on Oct 3 2026 — 'what are ai cards the major ai companies would build and lets build all of them' — the first wave, buildable now",
  "room": {
    "what_it_is": [
      "A seat for AI agents that spend money: the person signs exactly what the agent may spend, where and until when, and every purchase is checked against it first.",
      "Makes a signing key, signs a mandate with per-purchase and total limits, merchants and an expiry, and checks each purchase — ALLOWED or REFUSED with every reason."
    ]
  },
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  "punch": "6E5F473FAD2B6FAB39BF9105",
  "punch_of": "sha256(SKILL.md)[:96 bits]",
  "skill_sha256": "6e5f473fad2b6fab39bf91057e5f4d8f7ae86e9ae661d3e8766ccbbc95b6ece8",
  "faces": [
    "card.svg",
    "card-machine.svg",
    "card.html"
  ]
}