Give your AI agent a debit card. Issue single-use cards funded from your wallet with a fixed budget so your agents can buy things online.
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finally spun up a quick test agent and pointed it at a dummy checkout. it actually paused for confirmation before charging, which i was not expecting from a card pitched at bots.
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the single-use + human-authorized model answers most of the security questions already asked here. the one I don't see covered: chargebacks. if a merchant double-bills or ships nothing, a human cardholder can call their bank and dispute it. who's the "cardholder" here for dispute purposes when the actual buyer was an agent - does Agentcard handle disputes on the company's behalf, or does that fall back to the human who authorized the card?
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Looks interesting. Maybe I am short of imagination, but based on the current state of where we are with agents, what kind of usecases you see are the low hanging fruits where you see this as a natural fit?
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I didn’t think about this before, but agents having their own cards actually makes a lot of sense.
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each human gets a wallet and cards pull from it - when multiple agents under the same human are spending concurrently, is the budget split per-agent upfront or one shared pool where whichever agent hits checkout first wins?
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the single-use model is clean for one-off buys, but what about an agent that needs to set up a recurring subscription - is there no card left for the renewal to hit, or does that flow issue a different card type entirely?
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In the case where the AI tries to make a purchase that exceeds the budget set by the card or from a website that should not have been used, what really happens? Does the process safely fail, or is there a possibility that charges can exceed expectations?
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Letting an assistant anywhere near my actual card has always made me a little queasy, so the idea of it being kept on a short leash sits really well with me. Felipe, this feels like the sensible missing piece.
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finally spun up a quick test agent and pointed it at a dummy checkout. it actually paused for confirmation before charging, which i was not expecting from a card pitched at bots.
the single-use + human-authorized model answers most of the security questions already asked here. the one I don't see covered: chargebacks. if a merchant double-bills or ships nothing, a human cardholder can call their bank and dispute it. who's the "cardholder" here for dispute purposes when the actual buyer was an agent - does Agentcard handle disputes on the company's behalf, or does that fall back to the human who authorized the card?
Looks interesting. Maybe I am short of imagination, but based on the current state of where we are with agents, what kind of usecases you see are the low hanging fruits where you see this as a natural fit?
I didn’t think about this before, but agents having their own cards actually makes a lot of sense.
each human gets a wallet and cards pull from it - when multiple agents under the same human are spending concurrently, is the budget split per-agent upfront or one shared pool where whichever agent hits checkout first wins?
the single-use model is clean for one-off buys, but what about an agent that needs to set up a recurring subscription - is there no card left for the renewal to hit, or does that flow issue a different card type entirely?
In the case where the AI tries to make a purchase that exceeds the budget set by the card or from a website that should not have been used, what really happens? Does the process safely fail, or is there a possibility that charges can exceed expectations?
Letting an assistant anywhere near my actual card has always made me a little queasy, so the idea of it being kept on a short leash sits really well with me. Felipe, this feels like the sensible missing piece.