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  1. package/README.md +79 -36
  2. package/dist/cli.js +372 -335
  3. package/dist/mcp-server/index.js +297 -260
  4. package/dist/skills/pair-visa-agent/RUNTIMES.md +92 -79
  5. package/dist/skills/pair-visa-agent/SKILL.md +197 -311
  6. package/native/bin/win32-x64/visa-keychain-win.exe +0 -0
  7. package/package.json +2 -2
  8. package/server.json +3 -3
package/dist/skills/pair-visa-agent/SKILL.md CHANGED
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  ---
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  name: pair-visa-agent
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- description: Pair a Visa CLI v4 agent identity to this device so the agent can pay on the user's behalf. You paste a link, the user enrolls on mobile web, and the credential auto-pairs back to this device — no code is ever typed back. Use when the user says "pair my agent", "enroll my Visa CLI", "connect my Visa wallet", "set up my agent identity", "get me set up to pay", "log in to Visa", or asks to connect/sign up their .visa account.
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- compatibility: Needs the `visa` CLI (`npm i -g @visa/cli@rc`) — run `node scripts/setup.mjs` to auto-install it if missing — plus network access to the Visa verify-web origin. Works in OpenClaw, Hermes, or any Agent Skills runtime.
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+ description: Pair a Visa CLI v4 agent identity to this runtime. Present one authorization link and the full public request-key fingerprint to the human, then poll until the runtime's local Ed25519 identity is activated. Use when the user says "pair my agent", "enroll my Visa CLI", "connect my Visa agent", or "set up my agent identity".
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+ compatibility: Needs the `visa` CLI (`npm i -g @visa/cli@rc`) — run `node scripts/setup.mjs` to install it if missing — plus network access to the Visa authorization service. Works in OpenClaw, Hermes, or any Agent Skills runtime.
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  allowed-tools: Bash(visa:*) Bash(visa-cli:*) Bash(node:*) Bash(npm:*) Bash(npx:*)
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  metadata:
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  author: visa
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  # until 4.1.0 is promoted to latest.
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  openclaw:
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  user-invocable: true
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- emoji: '💳'
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+ emoji: '🔐'
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  requires:
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  bins:
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  - visa
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  - visa-cli
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  ---
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- # Pair a Visa CLI v4 Agent Identity
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+ # Pair a Visa CLI v4 agent identity
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- Connects a Visa v4 identity (`.visa` name + delegated wallet + card) to THIS device
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- through a mobile-web enrollment link. This is the device-link flow: the credential
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- pairs back **automatically** to the terminal that started it. **No confirmation code is
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- ever typed back into you** — the code is an out-of-band check the human reads to confirm
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- the page they are on is the flow you started.
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+ Pair this runtime's locally generated identity with a human-approved Visa agent. Pairing
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+ protocol v2 has one ceremony and three equivalent ways to drive it:
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- Driven through the local `visa` binary. **This skill is runtime-agnostic** — it works in
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- OpenClaw, Hermes, or any agent runtime that can run the `visa` CLI or mount its MCP
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- server (see Runtimes). Use whichever pairing surface your runtime exposes; they all wrap
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- the same two `visa` commands:
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+ - **`pair_agent_start` / `pair_agent_poll`** — OpenClaw plugin tools.
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+ - **`enroll_agent` with `action: "start"` / `action: "claim"`** — the `visa` MCP server tool.
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+ - **`visa agent enroll --format json` / `visa agent enroll-claim --format json`** — the raw
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+ CLI and universal fallback.
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- - **`pair_agent_start` / `pair_agent_poll`** — the OpenClaw plugin tools (parse JSON for you). Use these if present.
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- - **`enroll_agent`** — the `visa` MCP server tool, if the runtime has the server mounted.
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- - **`visa agent enroll` / `visa agent enroll-claim`** — the raw CLI, always available if `visa` is on PATH. The universal fallback.
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+ Use the first surface available. Do not mix this flow with older pairing or login flows;
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+ all three surfaces above wrap the same v2 enrollment ceremony and local pending state.
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- Pick the first one available; if unsure, shell out to the raw CLI commands — every path
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- hits the same hand-off on this device.
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+ ## What pairing establishes
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+
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+ Pairing activates an agent identity on this runtime:
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+
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+ - `agentId` is the server-assigned, stable identifier for the agent.
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+ - The runtime creates and retains the private Ed25519 identity key. It sends only the
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+ public JWK to the service.
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+ - `identityKeyJkt` is the thumbprint of the currently bound Ed25519 public key. It can
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+ change when that key rotates, so it must never be presented or stored as the stable
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+ agent identifier.
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+ - The human receives the authorization URL, stable agent ID, and full public request-key
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+ fingerprint for exact comparison. Private key material, the local claim token, and signed
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+ protocol messages stay with the runtime.
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+ - An `activated` result means **identity paired only**. Payment methods, an email address,
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+ and tap bindings are separate configuration that may be added later. Do not infer any
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+ of those capabilities from pairing success.
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  ## Getting this skill
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- The skill ships **inside the public `@visa/cli` npm package** — no git clone of the
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- (private) monorepo is required, so any agent box that can reach npm can install it:
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+ The skill ships inside the public `@visa/cli` npm package. No clone of the private
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+ monorepo is required:
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+ ```sh
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+ npm install -g @visa/cli@rc
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+ visa agent skill
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  ```
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- npm install -g @visa/cli@rc # public npm — puts `visa` on PATH
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- visa agent skill # plants this skill into your runtime's skills dir
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- ```
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- `visa agent skill` auto-detects OpenClaw / Hermes / Claude Code (falling back to the
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- project-local `./.agents/skills`); pass `--runtime <name>` or `--dir <path>` to target
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- one explicitly, `--force` to overwrite, or `--print` to read it without writing. After
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- it lands, **reload/restart your agent** so the runtime registers the skill, then prompt
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- the agent — "set up my Visa agent to pay" — to run the pairing flow below. (Installing a
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- skill does not run it; the agent activates it on a matching prompt.)
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- Access is gated server-side by the employee allowlist + Turnkey, so shipping the playbook
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- over public npm exposes no capability — only allowlisted accounts can actually pair.
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- (OpenClaw users also get it auto-bundled with the `@visa/visa-cli-openclaw` plugin. The
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- `npx skills add` open-standard path applies once the skill is published to a public repo.)
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-
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- ## Getting set up (install → mount → pair → transact)
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- The whole flow, top to bottom:
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- 1. **Install the CLI (prerelease)** — `npm install -g @visa/cli@rc`, **or** run the bundled
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- provisioner `node scripts/setup.mjs` (idempotent — installs `@visa/cli@rc` only if `visa`
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- is missing; this is how **Hermes / Claude Code / any runtime** self-provisions, and what
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- OpenClaw runs automatically via the manifest). You **must** use the `@rc` tag: the
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- `@latest` tag (4.0.x) predates the `visa agent` commands and reports "does not expose
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- agent enroll". This puts both `visa` and `visa-cli` on PATH and ships the bundled MCP
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- server (`@visa/cli/dist/mcp-server/index.js`). (Once 4.1.0 is promoted to `latest`, bare
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- `@visa/cli` will work.)
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- 2. **Mount the MCP server** — one mount gives this agent the _entire_ v4 toolset:
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- - **OpenClaw:** installing the `@visa/visa-cli-openclaw` plugin **auto-mounts** the server
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- (its postinstall writes `mcp.servers["visa-cli"]` into `~/.openclaw/openclaw.json`).
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- Nothing to do by hand.
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- - **Hermes / anything else:** run `visa-cli connect hermes` (or `visa-cli connect <runtime>`).
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- This writes the server entry idempotently into the runtime's config (Hermes →
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- `~/.hermes/config.yaml` under `mcp_servers`). See Runtimes below for the exact shape.
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- - **No runtime integration?** The raw `visa agent …` CLI still works — the universal fallback.
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- 3. **Pair** — run the Core flow below. This binds a `.visa` identity + delegated wallet + card
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- to this device.
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- 4. **Transact** — once paired, use the mounted tools (see "What you can do once paired").
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- ## Runtimes
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- One artifact, both runtimes. The `visa` CLI is the portable substrate; mount its MCP
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- server so the runtime exposes the tools (both use the same server entrypoint — replace
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- `<npm root -g>` with the output of `npm root -g`):
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- **OpenClaw** (`~/.openclaw/openclaw.json`):
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+ `visa agent skill` auto-detects OpenClaw, Hermes, and Claude Code, falling back to the
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+ project-local `./.agents/skills`. Pass `--runtime <name>` or `--dir <path>` to choose a
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+ target, `--force` to overwrite, or `--print` to read without writing. Reload or restart
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+ the agent runtime after installation so it registers the skill.
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+ Access remains enforced by the Visa service. Installing the public package or skill does
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+ not authorize an account to pair.
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+ OpenClaw users also receive the skill with the `@visa/visa-cli-openclaw` plugin.
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+ ## Getting set up
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+ 1. **Install the prerelease CLI.** Run `npm install -g @visa/cli@rc`, or run the bundled
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+ idempotent provisioner `node scripts/setup.mjs`. The `@latest` tag may not yet expose
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+ the v4 agent commands. Installation puts `visa` and `visa-cli` on `PATH` and includes
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+ `@visa/cli/dist/mcp-server/index.js`.
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+ 2. **Mount the MCP server when the runtime supports MCP.**
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+ - **OpenClaw:** installing `@visa/visa-cli-openclaw` auto-mounts the server by writing
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+ `mcp.servers["visa-cli"]` in `~/.openclaw/openclaw.json`.
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+ - **Hermes or another supported runtime:** run `visa-cli connect hermes` or
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+ `visa-cli connect <runtime>`. For Hermes, the entry is written under `mcp_servers`
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+ in `~/.hermes/config.yaml`.
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+ - **No MCP integration:** use the raw `visa agent …` commands.
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+ 3. **Pair.** Follow the core flow below.
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+ ## MCP mounting examples
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+ Both runtimes use the same server entrypoint. Replace `<npm root -g>` with the output of
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+ In Hermes, `hermes claw migrate` can also import this skill and MCP configuration from an
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+ existing OpenClaw installation. See `RUNTIMES.md` for the complete runtime map.
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+ ## JSON and exit-code contract
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- ## Running commands
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+ Prefer structured output and parse it; never scrape prose.
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- stdout with a non-zero exit code. **Always parse the JSON — never scrape prose.**
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- - `enroll-claim` exit codes are load-bearing: `0` = claimed (done), `3` = not ready yet
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+ - The OpenClaw and MCP tools return structured objects directly.
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+ - Raw CLI commands support `--format json`.
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+ - `visa agent enroll-claim` exits `0` when activated, `3` when the human has not finished,
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+ and `1` on a terminal failure.
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+ The start result includes protocol version `2`, `pairingId`, stable `agentId`, full
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+ `requestKeyFingerprint`, `browserUrl`, and expiry information. The activation result
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+ It returns `browserUrl`, `pairingId`, stable `agentId`, and the full public
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+ `requestKeyFingerprint` **immediately**. It starts a detached activation process only
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+ - [ ] Present the authorization URL, stable agent ID, and full public fingerprint to the human.
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+ - [ ] Report the stable `agentId` and that the identity is paired on this runtime.
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- - `sessionSaved: false` or `walletProvisioned: false` → report the missing capability
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- exactly. Pairing still retained the identity/card credential; do not describe it as a
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- total failure and do not fall back to the terminal-only `agent create/claim` ceremony.
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- If the session is missing, a later enrollment retry is the supported recovery.
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- There is no automatic fallback wallet ceremony. A fully provisioned hand-off completes
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- device enrollment; an honest partial remains paired and names what still is not available.
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- ## What you can do once paired
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- Pairing is the on-ramp. v4 is **non-custodial** — a Turnkey-delegated wallet bounded by
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- Describe it that way to the user. The mounted MCP server exposes:
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- - **x402 wallet spend (the core rail) — ALWAYS drive it through these MCP tools; never
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- 1. **`wallet_discover`** — find payable x402 services by outcome (free, directory-backed).
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- with any x402 URL the user names (the wallet pays any endpoint, no directory needed).
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- 2. **`wallet_probe`** — preview a fresh x402 challenge for a discovered listing **or any
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- asset (Base USDC), and that the price is at or below the user's ceiling.
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- 3. **`wallet_pay`** (arbitrary URL) or **`wallet_directory_pay`** (a directory listing) —
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- Bounded by the on-device wallet policy; never touches credits, cards, or server-side spend
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- controls. These `wallet_*` tools are **default-on in the supported build**. CLI equivalents
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- (`visa find` / `inspect` / `pay`) exist, but prefer the MCP tools — and note `visa find` is
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- session-gated (it can report `Not logged in`), whereas `wallet_probe` / `wallet_pay` work on
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- **NEVER — to find or pay an x402 service — fall back to any of:** `npx awal` or any
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- "bazaar"/third-party discovery client; `curl` or hand-built EIP-3009 signatures / another
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- payment client; reading a merchant's OpenAPI / `/docs` to guess an endpoint and pay it
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- blind; or any retired catalog/direct-execution surface. If the wallet tools cannot find
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- with what you tried and stop — do not improvise another payment path. `wallet_probe` +
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- - **Message other agents on the `.visa` mesh (Subway)** — once paired, your agent's Visa
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- identity **doubles as its Subway mesh identity** (admission reuses the same Visa-signed
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- device-pairing + TAP binding, so a paired, TAP-registered `.visa` agent is already
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- admitted — no extra key, no separate install; the Subway SDK is bundled into the mounted
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- `visa-cli` MCP server). The tools:
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- - `subway_register` — FREE. Claim your handle → `<name>.visa` on the mesh (reuses your
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- - `subway_send` — FREE. Send a direct **signed** message to another agent: `to` (their
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- handle, e.g. `"dee"` → `dee.visa`) + `text`. Reaches other `.visa` mesh peers only.
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- (A Telegram bridge is planned — #6119 — but not built yet; do not tell a user they can
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- - `subway_inbox` — FREE. Read recent inbound messages (`limit`, `clear` to drain).
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- - `subway_find` — resolve a handle to its `.visa` peer.
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- **Gated (be honest with the user):** mesh messaging is live only on an **RC/dev build**
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- with `SUBWAY_MESH=visa` **and a reachable relay** (`SUBWAY_RELAY_MULTIADDR`, a Visa Crypto
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- Labs deployment). On a stable build the `subway_*` tools aren't exposed; without a relay
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- they no-op (`subway_register` reports the binding is "ready for admission once a relay is
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- up"). If a user asks to message another `.visa` agent and the mesh isn't wired, say so
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- - **Real-merchant card checkout (experimental, opt-in)** — `pay_merchant` fills and pays an
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- ordinary merchant web checkout with a **Verified Agent card credential**: a one-shot
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- network-token cryptogram minted **on this device** (non-custodial) — not a stored card,
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- not x402, not server-side spend controls. Two steps: `review` (free; returns merchant +
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- exact amount as a `reviewId`) then `pay` (requires `confirm: "PAY <reviewId>"` + a passkey,
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- and CHARGES). Prerequisites — the tool errors clearly if any is missing:
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- 1. **`checkout_agent_access`** flag on your account (email-keyed; an admin grants it via
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- `PUT /v1/admin/users/<your-enroll-email>/feature-flags/checkout_agent_access` or the
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- 2. **`CHECKOUT_AGENT_ALLOW_SUBMIT=1`** in the MCP server's env. This is the submit opt-in:
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- WITHOUT it the agent fills the checkout form but **refuses to press the pay button** (the
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- default safe posture — `submit:false`), so a checkout silently never completes. Set it on
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- the `visa-cli` MCP server entry (e.g. OpenClaw `mcp.servers["visa-cli"].env`, Hermes
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- `mcp_servers.visa-cli.env`, or `claude mcp add … -e CHECKOUT_AGENT_ALLOW_SUBMIT=1`). The
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- `visa-cli checkout … --submit` CLI flag sets the same opt-in.
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- 3. An enrolled agent credential (`enroll_agent`) and a `~/.visa-mcp/contact.json`. This file
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- supplies the **cardholder name** the credential is minted with AND the billing details
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- filled into the merchant form. If it is missing, or `fullName` is empty/whitespace, the
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- checkout dies at the final step with `cardholder name is required` (after mandate
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- approval — an expensive late failure). **Before the first checkout, ASK the user for
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- these fields and write the file yourself** (0600), with a REAL non-blank `fullName`:
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- ```jsonc
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- {
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- "fullName": "Ada Lovelace", // REQUIRED, non-blank — the cardholder name
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- "email": "ada@example.com", // REQUIRED — used by the approval ceremony
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- "addressLine1": "1 Analytical Way",
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- "addressLine2": "",
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- "city": "London",
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- "state": "CA", // 2-letter region where applicable
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- "postalCode": "94105",
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- "country": "US", // 2-letter ISO
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- }
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- ```
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- Exact keys only (`fullName` | `firstName`+`lastName`, `email`, `addressLine1/2`, `city`,
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- `state`, `postalCode`, `country`) — the engine reads these names verbatim. Never invent a
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- name; if the user won't provide one, stop and say checkout needs a real cardholder name.
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- **RC/preview builds only**, opt-in, never paired-and-go.
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- If a tool you expect isn't visible, the MCP server isn't mounted (or the v4 wallet runtime
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- isn't bundled in this build) — go back to "Getting set up".
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- ## Important
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- - **The confirmation code is display-only.** Show it; never ask for it; never accept it as
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- input. It lets the human verify the page matches the flow you started.
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- - **Never read, print, log, or echo** the credential file or the enrollment pending file,
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- or the `browserUrl` query values beyond the single presentation to the user. The link
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- carries only a hash + a public key — safe in history — but treat it as one-time.
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- - Do not run API-key setup, card enrollment, or a balance top-up as a substitute for
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- pairing. Once paired, use the `visa-cli` skill's v4 wallet commands to pay.
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- ## Limits
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- | Limit | Value |
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- | ------------------------------ | ------------------------------------------------------------ |
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- | Hand-off validity | 15 minutes from `pair_agent_start` |
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- | In-flight hand-offs per device | 1 (a new start replaces the prior) |
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- | Claim | single-shot server-side; once claimed the entry is destroyed |
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- | Confirmation code | 6 chars, no ambiguous glyphs; display-only |
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- ## Errors
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- | status / symptom | Cause | Recovery |
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- | ------------------------------------------------------ | ----------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
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- | `error: verify-web URL not available in stable builds` | Stable CLI build, surface not public | Set `VISA_VERIFY_WEB_URL` or use a preview build. Do not proceed otherwise. |
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- | `error: RC build requires access` | The RC employee gate rejected the bootstrap | Upgrade the RC (`npm install -g @visa/cli@rc`) or set `VISA_RC_CODE`, then retry the hand-off. |
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- | `no_pending` | No hand-off in flight (never started, or already claimed/expired) | Start fresh with `pair_agent_start`. |
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- | `not_ready`, `likelyExpired: false` | User hasn't finished the mobile flow | Wait, tell the user, poll again. Bounded polling only. |
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- | `not_ready`, `likelyExpired: true` | 15-minute window elapsed | Start over with `pair_agent_start`. |
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- | `confirm_mismatch` | The claim didn't match THIS device's secret | STOP. Show the re-derived `confirmCode`. If the user did not just finish the flow, someone else may hold their link — start over. Never retry blindly. |
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- | `error` (network / malformed) | Transport or server error | Surface the message. Poll once more; if it persists, start over. |
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+ The runtime persists its v2 pending record before sending the signed claim. If a request
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+ or response is interrupted, the next poll resumes the exact same `pairingId`, `agentId`,
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+ Ed25519 identity, and claim material. This makes an identical retry safe and avoids
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+ creating a second identity because a response was lost.
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+
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+ The pending record remains until the activated agent record has been written durably.
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+ Therefore:
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+
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+ - Poll before starting over.
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+ - Do not delete or edit pending files to fix a transient failure.
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+ - Do not regenerate keys for an existing pairing.
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+ - Do not copy pending state between runtimes.
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+
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+ ## Optional `.visa` mesh binding (separate from pairing)
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+
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+ Pairing does not register a `.visa` name, TAP key, or Subway peer. If the operator has
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+ separately enabled and registered those channel bindings, the mounted `visa-cli` MCP server
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+ may expose `subway_register`, `subway_send`, `subway_inbox`, and `subway_find`.
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+
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+ Mesh messaging is available only on a compatible RC/dev build with `SUBWAY_MESH=visa` and
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+ a reachable `SUBWAY_RELAY_MULTIADDR`. If those tools or the relay are unavailable, report
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+ that clearly and stop. Do not imply that identity pairing alone granted directory or
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+ messaging authority, and do not improvise another transport.
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+
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+ ## Optional checkout profile (separate from pairing)
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+
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+ Pairing does not enable card checkout. If the operator has separately provisioned card
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+ authority, enabled `checkout_agent_access`, and opted the MCP server into submission with
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+ `CHECKOUT_AGENT_ALLOW_SUBMIT=1`, the experimental `pay_merchant` flow also needs a local
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+ `~/.visa-mcp/contact.json` file. Collect every value from the human before the first review;
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+ never infer or invent identity or address data. Write the file with mode `0600`.
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+
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+ ```jsonc
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+ {
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+ "fullName": "Ada Lovelace",
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+ "email": "ada@example.com",
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+ "addressLine1": "1 Analytical Way",
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+ "addressLine2": "",
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+ "city": "San Francisco",
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+ "state": "CA",
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+ "postalCode": "94105",
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+ "country": "US",
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+ }
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+ ```
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+
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+ `fullName` must be non-blank; `firstName` plus `lastName` is also accepted. The engine reads
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+ the exact keys `fullName`, `firstName`, `lastName`, `email`, `addressLine1`, `addressLine2`,
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+ `city`, `state`, `postalCode`, and `country`. The profile supplies checkout/cardholder and
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+ billing data only. Its `email` value is not the account's verified owner email, an agent
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+ mailbox, key proof, recovery factor, or permission to spend.
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+
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+ ## Security rules
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+
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+ - Never read, print, log, paste, or transmit the private Ed25519 JWK or local claim token.
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+ - Never read or echo the pending pairing file. Present only the authorization URL returned
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+ by the supported command or tool.
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+ - Never treat `identityKeyJkt` as the stable identity. Use `agentId` for references and
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+ persistence.
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+ - Never fetch the authorization URL on the human's behalf. The human reviews and approves
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+ it in their browser.
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+ - Never invent a secondary pairing path when polling fails. Preserve the pending state,
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+ surface the error, and retry or restart through the same canonical enrollment flow.
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  ## Further docs
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- - `docs/agents/ARCHITECTURE.md` — where the enroll hand-off sits in the v4 request paths.
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- - `visacli.sh/agents` — product-facing agent docs.
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+ - `RUNTIMES.md` — OpenClaw, Hermes, and raw CLI setup.
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+ - `docs/agents/ARCHITECTURE.md` — where enrollment sits in the v4 request paths.
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+ - `visacli.sh/agents` — product-facing agent documentation.
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