Agent spend controls compared

Questions

What are agent spend controls?

They are limits a public vendor document states for agent spending: per payment caps, period budgets, payee allowlists, human approval, and revocation. As of 2026-11-02.

How many products are in the spend controls comparison?

The spend controls file compares 20 products. As of 2026-11-02. Full comparison

How many products document a cap change channel the agent's own tools cannot reach?

12 of 20 products document that channel. 10 cap change cells are not documented as of 2026-11-02. Full comparison

What does UNKNOWN mean?

UNKNOWN means the checked document does not state the control. A filled cell is used only when the linked document states the status.

Sources

1. What is Agent Vault
2. Approving a purchase
3. Enable auto-approval
4. ACP delegate payment
5. AP2 payment mandate
6. AP2 protocol documentation
7. How-to: Set spending policies
8. How-to: Authenticate an agent wallet
9. Coinbase Agentic Wallet CLI documentation
10. Coinbase Agentic Wallet MCP documentation
11. Introducing Hedera Agent Accounts
12. How to use Ledger Agent Intent
13. Managing agent spend
14. MPP protocol site
15. MetaMask Agent Wallet outflow policy
16. MetaMask Agent Wallet trading modes
17. MetaMask Agent Wallet documentation
18. Nevermined delegations
19. Nevermined card delegation
20. Nevermined payments facilitator
21. Polygon Agent CLI reference
22. Polygon Agent CLI package
23. Approve a purchase outside Shopify
24. Using Shop with AI agents and agentic platforms
25. Shop Pay
26. Skyfire tokenAmount
27. How Skyfire seller services work
28. Skyfire payments and settlement
29. stripe/link-cli README
30. Set up a balance for agent wallet purchases
31. Enable agents to spend
32. Sui Agent Payments
33. Tempo guide to paying with the CLI
34. Tempo wallet_authorizeAccessKey
35. Tempo spend permissions
36. Visa Intelligent Commerce getting started
37. Visa Intelligent Commerce workflows
38. Visa Trusted Agent Protocol getting started
39. Lightning Labs: Wavelength on mainnet, 23 October 2026
40. The Wavelength system

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Related concepts

• Agent spend controls

  Agent spending is bounded only where a vendor document states the bound.

• Can an AI agent raise its own spending limit?

  Yes, if the approval step for a cap change reaches a channel the agent can read.

• How AI agents pay

  As of 2026-11-06, this directory records 8 card tagged payment rails, 3 HTTP 402 protocol columns, 3 commerce protocol listings, and 15 agent wallet rows.

• How do you revoke an AI agent's credentials?

  An agent credential can be revoked only where a checked page states the path.

• How do you verify an AI agent's identity?

  You verify an AI agent's identity with the check that listing documents, and this directory does not record one shared method.

• How is x402 volume measured

  As of 2026-10-29, x402.org no longer published the Last 30 Days panel that showed 75.41M transactions and $24.24M volume through at least 2026-10-20, and x402scan showed 3,247,612 transactions and $1.58M under Past 30 Days.

• KYA vs KYC: what is the difference?

  Know Your Agent is the check a merchant or service runs before it lets an agent transact.

• What is the agent economy

  The agent economy is software agents that discover services, pay, prove identity, and act under spend limits on behalf of people or businesses.

• Which agent identity standards exist?

  Identity listing text names four records as a draft or a specification: ERC-8004, a draft Ethereum proposal; Web Bot Auth, an IETF working group draft and not yet a standard; x401, a draft HTTP protocol; and Visa Trusted Agent Protocol, a Visa specification.

• Who handles a refund when an agent pays

  A refund follows the page for that rail.

• x402 volume, claimed and measured

  Public x402 volume figures disagree, and this page does not merge them.