BOUND
Authority Envelope
Express actions, resources, counterparties, environments, rails, budgets, validity, delegation and state as explicit machine-verifiable limits.
OPEN MACHINE AUTHORITY SPECIFICATION
Authority infrastructure for machines that can act.
PMAS defines how delegated Machine Authority is expressed, attenuated, evaluated, revoked and proven across autonomous agents and commerce systems.
ATTENUATE
No Authority Amplification
Every child delegation must be equal to or narrower than its parent. Empty scopes grant no authority; only explicit wildcards are unbounded.
PROVE
Portable Proof
Bind delegated authority, canonical decisions and evidence to Paylogee Machine Authority Proof and Commerce Receipt systems.
AUTHORITY LIFECYCLE
One contract from delegation to evidence
PMAS separates intent, authority and execution so no transport or rail can silently become an authority source.
01Identify
02Delegate
03Constrain
04Evaluate
05Approve
06Execute
07Prove
SCHEMA LIBRARY
Release candidate artifacts
JSON SCHEMAAuthority EnvelopeView artifact →JSON SCHEMADelegation ProofView artifact →JSON SCHEMAAction RequestView artifact →JSON SCHEMAAuthority DecisionView artifact →JSON SCHEMAApproval ProofView artifact →JSON SCHEMARevocation EventView artifact →JSON SCHEMAMachine Authority ProofView artifact →JSON SCHEMACommerce Receipt BindingView artifact →
REFERENCE IMPLEMENTATION
PMAS is open. Paylogee enforces it.
The specification defines portable authority semantics. Paylogee’s Machine Authority Kernel binds those semantics to KYA, delegation, policy, approval, execution rails, proof and Commerce Receipts.
MCP · A2A · x402 · Virtual CardPMAS Action RequestMachine Authority KernelUniversal Authority GatewayAPPROVE · REQUIRE_APPROVAL · DECLINE