The financial control layer
for AI agents.
Human oversight for agents that spend money, from policy enforcement to transaction approval. Your rules are checked before anything leaves, and even a manipulated agent or a fake store can’t buy a thing without your passkey.
Your agents
Claude Code
MCP
Your own agent
MCP
Any MCP client
MCP
runs on your machine
Limits
What it may spend, and where
Merchant check
Is this store safe to pay?
Approval
A person signs with a passkey
Record
Every step, checkable later
Open source
Read every line. Apache-2.0.
Self-hosted
Only a ZIP code and country leave.
Hard limits
Enforced outside the AI.
Merchant checks
Block stores you don’t trust.
Human approval
A passkey on every purchase.
Verifiable
Signed receipts, checked offline.
How it works
Set limits. Agent shops. You approve.
01
Set limits
Decide what an agent may spend.
Per order
$60
Per week
$150
dropship.example
Blocked
02
Agent shops
It finds the item and fills the cart.
Running shoes under $60
Within your limits
Store not blocked
03
You approve
Nothing is bought without your passkey.
Budget Running Shoe
$41.98
Approve with passkey
Merchant trust
Know the store before your agent pays it.
An agent can’t tell a real shop from a fake one. intent checks the merchant before any cart reaches you.
Block any store in your policy. A blocked store never receives a request.
R
Resale Hub
demo merchant
Example check
Not on your block list
Merchant reputation is in development.
dropship.example · on your block list
Blocked · nothing sent
Product proof
demo · test keys
One policy. Every decision on the record.
policy.yaml
on your machine
approval: passkey
spend:
per_order_usd: 60
per_week_usd: 150
merchants:
block: [dropship.example]
categories:
block: [alcohol]
what the agent asked
gateway decisions
Running shoes under $120
allowed
6 offers
Search for “alcohol”
blocked
category blocked · nothing sent
Cart at dropship.example
blocked
store on your block list
Budget Running Shoe, $41.98
needs approval
under the $60 limit
Approval, $41.98
approved
passkey a295…1de0
Integrations
What intent connects to.
What works today and what’s coming. This list changes when an integration ships.
Agents
Claude Code
Add the gateway as an MCP server.
Works today
Any MCP client
Connect over stdio or HTTP.
Works today
ChatGPT
The intent app, for invited testers.
Invite-only testing
Claude.ai
The intent connector, for invited testers.
Invite-only testing
Stores & checkout
Demo catalog
Sample stores and test keys. Nothing is bought.
Works today
Stores via UCP
Real catalogs through the open commerce standard.
Coming next
More open protocols
ACP, AP2 and others as stores adopt them.
Exploring
Payments
One-tap wallet checkout
Approve and pay in one passkey step. Demo only today.
Coming next
intent is not a bank, a payment processor or a wallet. It never holds your money or card.
For developers
Put intent in front of your agent.
Open source. Try the demo in one command, no sign-up.
terminal
demo · test keys
$ claude mcp add intent -- npx -y intent-gateway@next demo