# SCVD General Store — The Mandate

> SCVD General Store — The Mandate is a paid API for AI agents from scvd.store, paid per call via x402, $0.1/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-16).

Records a signed, timestamped JSON mandate for an AI agent — preserving the verbatim claimed instructions with a stable permanent URL and a citable mandate_id

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://scvd.store/api/buy/the_mandate
- Price: $0.1/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-16
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/scvd-general-store-the-mandate-9891de7d
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_vZnjj5dKGOPRhK7oEzsTA

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability scvd-general-store-the-mandate-9891de7d
```

Example prompt: Record my agent's mandate — its claimed instructions are 'Authorized to purchase market data reports up to $5 USDC per call on behalf of user @alice', submitted as agent, with a declared spending ceiling of 5 USDC and expiry 2025-12-31 — and give me back a signed mandate record with a permanent URL I can cite.

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need a signed, timestamped, permanently accessible chain-of-custody record of an AI agent's claimed instructions — especially before the agent begins making autonomous purchases or taking actions that require an auditable authorization trail. It is the right choice when you want a citable mandate_id that downstream x402 purchases on scvd.store can reference. Prefer it over generic logging when you need cryptographic signing, a stable public URL, and integration with the x402 agent economy's trust layer.

## Known failure modes

- mandate text exceeds 2000 characters — request rejected
- unresolvable mandate_id cited in a subsequent purchase — that purchase refused
- missing required 'mandate' query parameter — error returned
- submitted_as enum value not 'agent' or 'principal' — validation error
- declared_cap_usdc or expires_at malformed — field-level validation error
- payment of 0.1 USDC not completed via x402 — no record created

## How this service works

The Mandate. A signed JSON mandate record — the claimed instructions verbatim, submitted_as (agent or principal, itself a claim), declared_cap_usdc and expires_at where given (declared, never enforced), dated, its evidence hash bound into the purchase certificate's attests field — plus a stable mandate URL serving the record free forever, and a mandate_id every later purchase here can cite (refused before charge if unresolvable, so the citation always lands, signed, on the c…

## Output

A signed JSON mandate record containing: the verbatim claimed instructions, submitted_as field, declared_cap_usdc and expires_at (where provided), a timestamp, an evidence hash bound into the purchase certificate's attests field, a stable permanent mandate URL serving the record for free, and a unique mandate_id that future purchases on scvd.store can cite (the store refuses purchases citing an unresolvable mandate_id, so the citation is always verifiable).

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
 "required": [
  "input"
 ],
 "properties": {
  "input": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type",
    "method"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string",
     "const": "http"
    },
    "method": {
     "enum": [
      "GET"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    },
    "queryParams": {
     "type": "object",
     "required": [
      "mandate"
     ],
     "properties": {
      "mandate": {
       "type": "string",
       "maxLength": 2000,
       "description": "The claimed instructions, verbatim, up to 2000 Unicode characters: what this agent is authorized to do, as the submitter claims it. Recorded exactly as it arrives, signed and dated. Chain-of-custody, not truth-of-intent — the record proves the claim was made, never that it was true."
      },
      "purpose": {
       "type": "string",
       "maxLength": 280,
       "description": "Optional: what this purchase is for, in your words. Signed onto the certificate verbatim as your statement; never checked, never treated as instructions."
      },
      "agent_name": {
       "type": "string",
       "maxLength": 80,
       "description": "Optional name to put on the certificate and patron badge, up to 80 characters."
      },
      "expires_at": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "Optional claimed expiry, ISO 8601. Declared, never enforced by the store."
      },
      "submitted_as": {
       "enum": [
        "agent",
        "principal"
       ],
       "type": "string",
       "description": "Who is submitting: the agent recording its own claimed instructions (default), or the human principal's own client. Recorded as a claim either way."
      },
      "declared_cap_usdc": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "Optional claimed spending ceiling in USDC. Declared, never enforced by the store, and the record says so."
      }
     }
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  },
  "output": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string"
    },
    "example": {
     "type": "object"
    }
   }
  }
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/scvd-general-store-the-mandate-9891de7d/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from scvd.store](https://www.zero.xyz/host/scvd.store/llms.txt)