{
 "id": "agent-delegation-receipts",
 "name": "Agent Delegation Receipts",
 "acronym": "",
 "aliases": [
  "Delegation Receipt",
  "draft-nelson-agent-delegation-receipts"
 ],
 "collisions": [],
 "step": "permit",
 "parties": [
  "agent-human",
  "agent-agent",
  "agent-site"
 ],
 "form": "document-format",
 "track": "ietf",
 "scope": "general",
 "question": "How can a human principal's authorization of an AI agent (scope, boundaries, validity window, and operator instruction hash) be recorded as a signed, verifiable receipt that can be checked before the agent acts?",
 "analog": "A signed power-of-attorney slip the agent shows before acting, with a hash pinning the operator's instructions.",
 "origin": {
  "org": "Authproof (R. Nelson)",
  "date": null
 },
 "governance": "Individual Internet-Draft submitted to the IETF (Network Working Group); not an adopted working group document.",
 "native_status": "Internet-Draft, Intended Status: Informational; expires 12 April 2027",
 "phase": "draft",
 "implementation": "unknown",
 "adoption": {
  "level": "unmeasured",
  "by": null,
  "probe_run": null
 },
 "version": {
  "label": "draft-nelson-agent-delegation-receipts-11",
  "date": "2026-10-09"
 },
 "spec_url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-nelson-agent-delegation-receipts-11",
 "discovery": {
  "mechanism": "No discovery mechanism described in the available page text; receipts are presented by the agent to a verifier before executing an action.",
  "path": null
 },
 "probe": {
  "method": "NONE",
  "path": "",
  "parse": "",
  "on_absent": "No site-level support signal is defined, so absence cannot be observed."
 },
 "evidence": [
  {
   "claim": "The Internet-Draft defines the Agent Delegation Receipt as a signed record of what a human principal authorized an AI agent to do, using a JWS profile over JCS-canonicalized JSON and a COSE_Sign1 profile, plus scope attenuation for delegation chains and a revocation registry with cascade semantics.",
   "label": "REPORTED",
   "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-nelson-agent-delegation-receipts-11",
   "date": "2026-10-09"
  }
 ],
 "summary_md": "Defines the Agent Delegation Receipt, a signed record of the scope, hard boundaries, validity window, and operator-instruction hash that a human principal authorized for an AI agent. Version -11 uses a JWS profile (RFC 7515) over JCS-canonicalized JSON (RFC 8785) and a COSE_Sign1 profile (RFC 9052). It also specifies scope attenuation across multi-agent delegation chains and a revocation registry with cascade semantics. The draft states it is an audit and attribution layer for honest deployments, not a control against a malicious operator.",
 "part_of": null,
 "group": null,
 "candidate": true,
 "confidence": 0.6,
 "use_cases": [
  "delegate-user-authority",
  "audit-agent-actions",
  "prove-agent-identity"
 ],
 "audience": [
  "agent-builder",
  "platform",
  "standards-body"
 ],
 "pairs_with": [
  "ap2",
  "erc-8004",
  "agent-audit-trail"
 ],
 "prerequisites": [],
 "dispute": null,
 "last_verified": "2026-10-18",
 "history": [
  {
   "date": "2026-10-16",
   "note": "auto-drafted candidate from exa (https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-nelson-agent-delegation-receipts-11)"
  }
 ],
 "watch": [
  {
   "type": "page",
   "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-nelson-agent-delegation-receipts-11"
  }
 ],
 "freshness": "current",
 "url": "https://agenticweb.wiki/protocols/agent-delegation-receipts/",
 "category": "permit",
 "type": "protocol"
}