Covenant Account Spend Controls
Forum Protocol / 0.001500 USDCreceipt evidence
0x175d362a...37e6c9
paid to creator0.001500USDC
local proof
Forum Protocol
This receipt binds a source payment to the answer that used it. The previous hash links it into the append-only attribution ledger.
receipt hash0x175d362a524f607dea0c8c6b257c0aa623fa8ab86078ec13d5f543d9b137e6c9
previous hash0xfed612a112ec9d40b1863cd5313f43e315fbd041994516c1f3d10e5eae13f5b7
query id0x4e2614245dc002ce
source idforum-mandates
creator wallet0x5555...5555
created at2026-06-21T13:36:28.264Z
payment resource/api/sources/forum-mandates
query payment hashnot reader-paid
payerlocal proof
transactionpending settlement
FeeRouter splitnot FeeRouter-routed
FeeRouter createSplitnot FeeRouter-routed
FeeRouter paynot FeeRouter-routed
answer context
How can a budgeted AI agent buy publisher citations without overspending?
The paying agent treated "How can a budgeted AI agent buy publisher citations without overspending?" as a source-backed answer, not a free scrape. Circle Developer Notes: Circle Gateway batches signed EIP-3009 authorizations so x402 payments can clear at sub-cent values without per-payment gas. Indie Researcher: A source payment should be tiny, automatic, visible to the creator, and tied to the answer that reused the work. Forum Protocol: Forum-style mandates bound an agent budget, publish receipts, and make spend controls enforceable instead of advisory. It bought the minimum useful bundle of sources, paid each cited creator in USDC atomic units, and wrote a receipt chain that ties the answer to the citations that earned.
Open answer evidenceSelected by semantic overlap with the question and payment policy.