A financial control plane for machine participants.

Bank for the Agents is a research direction for delegated budgets, transaction policy, settlement, and the durable economic history of autonomous agents.

Every unit of value moves with a mandate.

Finite budgets pass through policy before settlement, while evidence and economic history remain attached to every authorized action.

Abstract machine treasury routing delegated budgets through policy gates into settlement and a durable economic ledger. — **Bank for the Agents**Budget, policy, settlement, and history in one accountable machine economy.

An account begins with accountable authority.

An agent should not hold or move value without a resolvable owner, explicit purpose, bounded permissions, and a record of what occurred.

PrincipalOwner and accountable partyAgentIdentity and delegated roleBudgetAmount, purpose, and durationPolicyCounterparties, limits, escalationSettlementEvidence and reconciliation

Four primitives.

Account identity

Represent an agent, its principal, and the authority under which it can hold or move value.

Delegated budgets

Define purpose, amount, duration, counterparties, and escalation before an agent spends.

Transaction policy

Evaluate a proposed action against permissions, risk, and context at the moment of execution.

Settlement history

Retain the economic evidence needed for reconciliation, credit, dispute, and audit.

Read Agent Economic Protocol