Covenant Account Spend Controls
Forum Protocol / 0.001500 USDCreceipt evidence
0x290ada12...f9514c
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 hash0x290ada126e7b50646ad4780d645e8ff9683b8dc0c3004403996d303ae9f9514c
previous hash0x3fefc542edb44710d89d24c0f9d92db842d6580cc0c93d1a52df36cfd059a523
query id0x521b07453475f115
source idforum-mandates
creator wallet0x5555...5555
created at2026-06-21T14:30:52.676Z
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.