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   Title:   Bounded Capability Receipts and Durable Spend Control for Agent Actions
   Author:  Iman Schrock
   Name:    draft-schrock-ep-bounded-capability-receipts-04.txt
   Pages:   35
   Dates:   2026-08-11

Abstract:

   Agents sometimes need bounded authority to perform more than one
   consequential action without obtaining a new human approval for every
   operation.  A signed token alone cannot enforce a shared budget
   across replicas, survive retries safely, or distinguish an operation
   that never crossed an effect boundary from one whose outcome is
   unknown.

   This document defines a bounded capability receipt and a durable
   reserve-execute-commit protocol.  The receipt binds an issuance
   authorization, a closed action scope, a budget with explicit units, a
   holder proof, an expiry, and any parent capability.  The state
   protocol atomically refuses overspend and operation-key replay,
   fences concurrent owners, and charges an indeterminate operation when
   an external effect may have occurred.  Delegation transfers rather
   than copies authority: all direct child allocations are funded by
   committed parent operations before child registration, and their
   aggregate cannot exceed the parent balance within one authoritative
   atomic state domain.  It also defines narrowing-only delegation,
   explicit revocation inheritance for delegated authority, and evidence
   interfaces.  It does not make a bearer token into human approval,
   does not provide cross-domain or offline global double-spend
   prevention, and does not claim that an authorized action was safe,
   lawful, or successfully executed.

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