{
 "id": "verifiable-intent",
 "name": "Verifiable Intent",
 "org": "Industry",
 "kind": "specification",
 "tier": "core",
 "status": "Draft v0.1 specification, maintained by Mastercard according to its README (Apache-2.0, tag v0.1.0). The FIDO Alliance release of 2026-04-28 says Mastercard has contributed it to the Payments Technical Working Group. On 2026-10-13 the last commit on main is of 2026-04-20 (356c296, PR #23), v0.1.0 is the only tag, no release is listed, and the README header reads \"Draft (v0.1). Maintained by Mastercard; open to multi-stakeholder contribution.\"",
 "status_as_of": "2026-10-13",
 "relevance": "The repository describes it as an \"Open specification for cryptographic agent authorization in commerce\"; the README defines a \"layered SD-JWT credential format\" giving cryptographic evidence that an agent's actions stayed within the scope the user delegated. Layers hold mandates (signed claims on checkout details or payment parameters) and user constraints; the merchant receives the checkout mandate (layer 3b, Autonomous mode). The FIDO release says \"Mastercard has contributed its Verifiable Intent framework, co-developed with Google and designed to work with AP2\"; Google as co-developer: not found in the repository pages read, 2026-10-02.\n",
 "boundary": "Out of scope in the README: transport, key management, provider enrolment, agent platform APIs, dispute resolution, regulatory compliance mapping.",
 "committed_next": [],
 "sources": [
  {
   "url": "https://github.com/agent-intent/verifiable-intent/blob/main/README.md",
   "archived": "https://web.archive.org/web/20261015052453/https://github.com/agent-intent/verifiable-intent/blob/main/README.md",
   "read": "2026-10-13",
   "class": "normative"
  },
  {
   "url": "https://github.com/agent-intent/verifiable-intent/blob/main/spec/design-rationale.md",
   "read": "2026-10-02",
   "class": "normative"
  },
  {
   "url": "https://fidoalliance.org/fido-alliance-to-develop-standards-for-trusted-ai-agent-interactions/",
   "archived": "https://web.archive.org/web/20261014061119/https://fidoalliance.org/fido-alliance-to-develop-standards-for-trusted-ai-agent-interactions/",
   "read": "2026-10-03",
   "class": "decision"
  }
 ],
 "overlaps": [
  "mastercard-agent-pay",
  "ucp",
  "emvco-agentic-payments-framework",
  "ap2"
 ],
 "seams": [
  "S4"
 ],
 "verified": "2026-10-13",
 "evidence": {
  "read": "On 2026-10-13: the head, tags and releases of the repository, the README status line, and the state of PR #40 (open, no comment since 2026-09-28) and issues #9, #10, #22 and #41. agent-intent/verifiable-intent: README, specification, landscape pages (2026-10-02); all 40 issues and pull requests with comments (2026-10-03; #10, #9 and #22 partly read); FIDO release.",
  "not_read": "Mastercard announcement of 2026-03-05.",
  "not_found": "Not found in the 40 items read, 2026-10-03: standards-body submission, EMVCo."
 },
 "open_proposals": [
  {
   "what": "Issue #41: question whether the cumulative budget is meant to be tracked per merchant, since the L3a sd_hash includes the merchant disclosure (no comment on 2026-10-13).",
   "author": "a participant",
   "date": "2026-10-03",
   "state": "open",
   "url": "https://github.com/agent-intent/verifiable-intent/issues/41"
  },
  {
   "what": "Environment-state constraint types for autonomous execution (PRs #9, #11, #22, #32, issue #28)",
   "author": "a participant",
   "date": "2026-03-17",
   "state": "open",
   "url": "https://github.com/agent-intent/verifiable-intent/pull/9"
  },
  {
   "what": "agent_attestation scheme, an SD-JWT agent passport",
   "author": "a participant",
   "date": "2026-09-21",
   "state": "open",
   "url": "https://github.com/agent-intent/verifiable-intent/issues/36"
  },
  {
   "what": "VI implementation for an EUDI wallet",
   "author": "a participant",
   "date": "2026-03-31",
   "state": "open",
   "url": "https://github.com/agent-intent/verifiable-intent/issues/19"
  },
  {
   "what": "Questions on intent standing after authority change (#35) and on purchase-request matching (#37)",
   "author": "a participant",
   "date": "2026-09-18",
   "state": "open",
   "url": "https://github.com/agent-intent/verifiable-intent/issues/35"
  },
  {
   "what": "Fix for prompt_summary accepted by the SDK but never written to L2 (issue #39, PR #40)",
   "author": "a participant",
   "date": "2026-09-28",
   "state": "open",
   "url": "https://github.com/agent-intent/verifiable-intent/issues/39"
  }
 ],
 "matrix": {
  "governance": "Maintained by Mastercard (README), \"open to multi-stakeholder contribution\"; Apache-2.0; contributed to the FIDO Payments Technical Working Group",
  "version_state": "Draft v0.1; tag v0.1.0; last commit 2026-04-20",
  "signs": "A delegation chain of SD-JWT credentials carrying mandates and user constraints; checkout-payment integrity binding",
  "signer": "Layer 1 credential provider; layer 2 user device key; layer 3 (Autonomous mode) agent key",
  "record": "Tamper-evident record of what the user delegated (README); receipt object: not found in README, design rationale, 2026-10-02",
  "dispute": "Dispute resolution is declared out of scope in the README",
  "source": "https://github.com/agent-intent/verifiable-intent/blob/main/README.md"
 },
 "url": "https://frmoretto.github.io/agentic-standards-map/entries/verifiable-intent.html",
 "source_url": "https://github.com/frmoretto/agentic-standards-map/blob/a1ae242918902e0768e0e6a79bd2bffc4ac5cfa3/entries/verifiable-intent.yaml",
 "licence": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
}