The Mandate. REQUIRES ?mandate= on the paid request — a signed request without it is refused before the gate and no money moves. 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…

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