#Identity
Articles about Identity — exploring patterns, best practices, and real-world implementations in production systems.
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When software spends money on your behalf, the merchant has to answer two questions before the charge clears: which agent is this, and what did the human actually let it do.
How a merchant verifies WHICH agent is acting and WHAT it may do.
When an AI agent spends your money, "the user said so" is not evidence. A signed mandate chain is.
A deep dive on the mandate chain as evidence: verifiable credentials (VCs), signing, the non-repudiable Intent→Cart→Payment chain, revocation and expiry, and why this replaces 'trust me, the user said so' with cryptograp…
All posts on this site are written by Pratik Dhanave, an Agentic AI Architect with 7+ years building production distributed systems, multi-agent AI platforms, and cloud-native infrastructure. About the author → Each article includes working code, architecture diagrams, and references to the specific frameworks and standards discussed. Browse all posts or explore related topics using the tag cloud above.