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 "url": "https://activatedigital.ai/knowledge/guides/ai-agent-permission-to-buy",
 "title": "How Can an AI Agent Prove It Has Permission to Buy for You?",
 "description": "An AI agent proves permission to buy through a chain: agent recognition, captured user intent, checkout scope, payment authority.",
 "territory": "impl",
 "category": null,
 "direct_answer": "An AI agent does not prove permission to buy with one credential. A trustworthy purchase needs a chain of evidence: the merchant recognises the agent, the user's intent is captured deterministically, the exact checkout falls inside that permission, payment authority is verified, constraints remain valid and the merchant or payment network understands the trust framework.",
 "last_verified": "2026-09-04",
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  {
   "url": "https://ap2-protocol.org/ap2/specification/",
   "name": "Agent Payments Protocol, AP2 v0.2 specification: checkout/payment mandates, constraints and verification responsibilities."
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  {
   "url": "https://developer.visa.com/capabilities/trusted-agent-protocol/overview",
   "name": "Visa, Trusted Agent Protocol overview: approved-agent recognition, signatures and intent-related signals. First-party mechanism evidence, not universal adoption evidence."
  },
  {
   "url": "https://developer.visa.com/capabilities/trusted-agent-protocol/docs-getting-started",
   "name": "Visa, Trusted Agent Protocol getting started: merchant-side cryptographic verification of approved agents."
  },
  {
   "url": "https://fidoalliance.org/fido-alliance-to-develop-standards-for-trusted-ai-agent-interactions/",
   "name": "FIDO Alliance, standards for trusted AI agent interactions, 28 April 2026: active standardisation and convergence work."
  },
  {
   "url": "https://newsroom.mastercard.com/news/europe/en/newsroom/press-releases/en/2026/santander-and-mastercard-complete-europe-s-first-live-end-to-end-payment-executed-by-an-ai-agent/",
   "name": "Mastercard and Santander, live end-to-end AI-agent payment, 2 March 2026: bounded live payment evidence with predefined permissions and limits."
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   "url": "https://www.mastercard.com/news/europe/en/newsroom/press-releases/en/2026/worldline-ing-and-mastercard-complete-a-live-end-to-end-european-agentic-payment-in-production/",
   "name": "Mastercard, Worldline and ING, live European agentic payment in production, 2 June 2026: bounded production execution evidence."
  },
  {
   "url": "https://developer.visa.com/use-cases/trusted-agent-protocol",
   "name": "Visa, Trusted Agent Protocol use case: current first-party status and merchant trust framing."
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