What Agents mean in the wallet

You own the wallet.
An agent is a person or a program you give a temporary key — not your own key.
They can pay only within what you approved: how much, to which addresses, and for how long.
Anything beyond that — the account blocks it. Even if the agent key is stolen, the wallet stays yours.
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Why this helps in real life

1. Subscription / API that pays itself

A bot that pays a vendor ($20/week, only that vendor). You do not approve every charge by hand.

2. A helper that trades for you

You wanted software to swap tokens. Swap bot is Coming later — still closed (exchange swaps). When it opens — a capped limit for 24 hours, not the whole wallet.

3. Someone on the team who needs to pay vendors

You give them a cap and vendor addresses. They cannot send to themselves outside the list.

4. Try without fear

Want to try a new tool? Give it $20/week. Not a fit — tap Revoke or Panic. Your owner key does not change.

How to use it (screen by screen)

01
Open Agents (on the web: from Portfolio, or /agents).
02
If there is no mandate yet — Create mandate.
03
Choose pay_api: 20 USDC, 7 days, ordinary transfers only.
(swap_24h is greyed — not active yet.)
04
Paste the agent’s public key. Their secret key never enters the wallet.
05
Read the line: “The agent is not the owner. Limits live in the contract.”
06
You sign (owner key).
07
You get a settings file with no secrets — give it to the agent’s machine/bot.
08
In the list you see how much of the cap remains.
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Revoke = that agent stops on the next block.
10
Panic = all agents stop immediately.

What not to do

Do not store the agent’s secret key in the wallet backup.
Do not approve “everything” / every contract in the world — that option is intentionally absent.
Do not confuse: the signature on this screen is yours, not the agent’s.

One line: You lend a small, controlled budget — not the wallet.

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