# Agent Decision Commitments for Payments ADC

[9 · Account](/category/account/)
Candidate · auto-drafted, unreviewed · confidence 80%

| Agent Decision Commitments for Payments |
| --- |
| Category | [Account](/category/account/) |
| Governed by | Individual Internet-Draft; discussion on DISPATCH, SCITT and OAuth mailing lists |
| Status | Internet-Draft, Intended Status: Experimental; expires 18 April 2027 |
| Phase | draft |
| Implementation | none found |
| Adoption | unmeasured |
| Version | draft-milan-agent-decision-commitment-00 (2026-10-15) |
| Specification | [https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-milan-agent-decision-commitment-00](https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-milan-agent-decision-commitment-00) |
| Found at | Decision context claim (JWT claim "decision_context") carried in a payment mandate or payload; commitment registered with a SCITT transparency service |
| Last checked | 2026-10-19 |
| Freshness | current · checked 2026-10-19 |
| Solves | Audit what an agent did, Let agents buy on behalf of a person |

Agent Decision Commitments for Payments (ADC) is an agentic-web standard (document format) at step 9, Account, governed by Individual Internet-Draft; its own status is "Internet-Draft, Intended Status: Experimental; expires 18 April 2027" (draft). It answers: How can an agent's payment decision, including the content it gave the model, be committed to before payment and later disclosed to dispute participants for verification? Adoption is unmeasured, last verified 2026-10-19.

[Account](/category/account/) Defines the Agent Decision Commitment (ADC), a salted hash commitment to a decision record covering the content given to the model interface, the model calls, and the resulting answer and action. The commitment is carried as a single selectively disclosable claim ("decision_context") in an existing payment mandate or payload and is by default registered with a SCITT transparency service before payment authorization. Disclosure and verification report attestation levels rather than verdicts. It also defines bindings to three agent payment protocols and to account-to-account credit transfers, and a witnessed reciprocal exchange between two parties' agents. It produces evidence only and does not allocate liability.

## Discovery and probe

Decision context claim (JWT claim "decision_context") carried in a payment mandate or payload; commitment registered with a SCITT transparency service

```
NONE
parse:
on absent: No public discovery endpoint; support could only be observed by inspecting payment mandates for a decision_context claim.
```

Not probed live: no-fixed-path. candidate record; probe rule pending

## History
- 2026-10-19 — auto-drafted candidate from exa (https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-milan-agent-decision-commitment-00)

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## References

- Internet-Draft defines the Agent Decision Commitment: a salted hash commitment to a decision record, carried as a selectively disclosable claim in a payment mandate and registered with a transparency service, with bindings to three agent payment protocols and account-to-account credit transfers, plus a witnessed reciprocal exchange. — [https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-milan-agent-decision-commitment-00](https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-milan-agent-decision-commitment-00) (2026-10-15) REPORTED

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