safe4_authorize
Safe4 authorize
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Decide whether a proposed agent payment should proceed.
Settled per call in USDC over x402. Called without `payment` it
returns the price list rather than a decision; call it again with the
signed payload to receive one.
The task and the two allow-lists are the principal's constraints, not
the agent's: they are what the purchase is tested against, so an agent
that writes its own `task` is grading its own homework. Safe4 records
every field it was given in the audit entry and marks the task context
as request-supplied, so a substituted constraint is visible afterwards.
Args:
task: The task the agent was given, as stated by its principal.
purchase: What is being bought.
purchase_purpose: Why this purchase serves the task.
amount: Decimal amount as a string, for example "25.00".
currency: Currency of the proposed payment, for example "USDC".
counterparty: Who would receive the payment.
service_category: Category of the thing being bought.
allowed_service_categories: Categories the principal permits.
allowed_counterparties: Optional payees the principal permits. When
supplied, payment to anyone else is denied.
task_id: Optional caller-side task identifier, echoed into the audit.
payment: An x402 payment payload for this call. Omit to receive the
price list instead of a decision.
Input schema
| Property | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| task | string | yes | |
| purchase | string | yes | |
| purchase_purpose | string | yes | |
| amount | string | yes | |
| currency | string | yes | |
| counterparty | string | yes | |
| service_category | string | yes | |
| allowed_service_categories | array | yes | |
| allowed_counterparties | any | no | |
| task_id | any | no | |
| payment | any | no |
Raw JSON schema
{
"properties": {
"task": {
"title": "Task",
"type": "string"
},
"purchase": {
"title": "Purchase",
"type": "string"
},
"purchase_purpose": {
"title": "Purchase Purpose",
"type": "string"
},
"amount": {
"title": "Amount",
"type": "string"
},
"currency": {
"title": "Currency",
"type": "string"
},
"counterparty": {
"title": "Counterparty",
"type": "string"
},
"service_category": {
"title": "Service Category",
"type": "string"
},
"allowed_service_categories": {
"items": {
"type": "string"
},
"title": "Allowed Service Categories",
"type": "array"
},
"allowed_counterparties": {
"anyOf": [
{
"items": {
"type": "string"
},
"type": "array"
},
{
"type": "null"
}
],
"default": null,
"title": "Allowed Counterparties"
},
"task_id": {
"anyOf": [
{
"type": "string"
},
{
"type": "null"
}
],
"default": null,
"title": "Task Id"
},
"payment": {
"anyOf": [
{
"type": "string"
},
{
"type": "null"
}
],
"default": null,
"title": "Payment"
}
},
"required": [
"task",
"purchase",
"purchase_purpose",
"amount",
"currency",
"counterparty",
"service_category",
"allowed_service_categories"
],
"title": "safe4_authorizeArguments",
"type": "object"
}