budget_delegate
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Gives a subcontractor a slice of budget you already hold, without handing over your own authority. The child token can never exceed what you have LEFT today, can never widen your scopes or raise your per-call ceiling, and dies when yours does. Revoking yours revokes theirs instantly and transitively. Use this when you hire another agent and it needs to spend.
Input schema
| Property | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| parent_token | string | yes | The delegation token you hold and want to pass part of on. |
| grantee_id | string | yes | The agent id that will spend against the new token. |
| max_amount | number | yes | Per-call ceiling in USD. Cannot exceed the parent's. |
| daily_limit | number | yes | Daily budget in USD. Cannot exceed what the parent has left today. |
| scopes | array | yes | Intents the child may spend on. Must be a subset of the parent's. |
| ttl_minutes | number | no | How long the child lives. Clamped to the parent's own expiry. |
Raw JSON schema
{
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"parent_token": {
"type": "string",
"description": "The delegation token you hold and want to pass part of on."
},
"grantee_id": {
"type": "string",
"description": "The agent id that will spend against the new token."
},
"max_amount": {
"type": "number",
"description": "Per-call ceiling in USD. Cannot exceed the parent's."
},
"daily_limit": {
"type": "number",
"description": "Daily budget in USD. Cannot exceed what the parent has left today."
},
"scopes": {
"type": "array",
"items": {
"type": "string"
},
"description": "Intents the child may spend on. Must be a subset of the parent's."
},
"ttl_minutes": {
"type": "number",
"description": "How long the child lives. Clamped to the parent's own expiry."
}
},
"required": [
"parent_token",
"grantee_id",
"max_amount",
"daily_limit",
"scopes"
]
}