delta mandate
delta mandate is a cryptographic verification system for actions that AI agents take on behalf of users. It is built for an operator — a platform that runs agents for its users — to ensure each proposed action respects the user's signed intent. Typical operators include agentic-commerce platforms and neo-banks.
The user signs an intent. An agent proposes a candidate solution. delta mandate extracts evidence from the proposal, evaluates it against the intent and produces a cryptographic proof of the evaluation result that anyone can independently verify.
Concepts at a glance
A delta mandate flow involves five primitives:
- Template — a reusable policy definition: an intent schema, an evidence schema, and constraints, written in the Policy Engine DSL. The operator registers templates once. (more)
- Intent — a signed declaration of what the user accepts; references a template. (more)
- Proposal — an agent's candidate solution for an open intent. (more)
- Evidence — structured data extracted from a proposal and checked against the template's evidence schema. (more)
- Proof — the composite artifact attesting that a proposal satisfies an intent. (more)
Where to go next
- Integrating delta mandate? Walk through the intent lifecycle and the orchestrator/verifier APIs in the integration getting started guide.
- Authoring templates? Write reusable policy definitions in the DSL — see the Policy Engine getting started guide.
- Want the whole picture? See how the components fit together in the Architecture.
- Need the CLIs first? Install
mandate-orchestrator,mandate-verifier, andpolicy-enginefrom the Install page.