> ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.dakota.xyz/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Create an x402 spend mandate (BETA) > > **Beta** — early access. Creates the standing allowance an agent pays x402-metered resources under. Unlike a payment mandate this authorizes a BUDGET rather than a payee: x402 payees are discovered at request time from a seller's 402 response, so the controls are a per-call ceiling plus a rolling aggregate across every payee. Amounts are atomic units of the asset (USDC has 6 decimals, so "100000" is $0.10). ## OpenAPI ````yaml /openapi.yaml post /payment-agents/{payment_agent_id}/x402/mandates openapi: 3.0.3 info: title: Dakota Platform API version: 1.0.0 description: >- Combined API specification for Dakota Platform services: - Issuance API: Asset minting and burning operations - Onboarding API: Know Your Business/Customer verification - On/Off Ramp API: Managing on-ramp and off-ramp accounts - Recipients API: Managing destinations for KYB'd entities - Transactions API: Viewing transaction history across platform operations ## Authentication and API Headers All API endpoints require the following headers: - `X-Idempotency-Key`: Required for all POST endpoints to ensure request idempotency - `x-api-key`: Required for authentication across all endpoints Note: On /applications endpoints you need a token for authentication instead of a x-api-key - `x-application-token`: Required for authentication on public /applications endpoints (alternative to `x-api-key` where documented) ## Rate Limits Requests are rate limited per API key. Every response includes the following headers: | Header | Description | | --- | --- | | `X-RateLimit-Limit` | Maximum requests allowed in the current one-minute window. | | `X-RateLimit-Remaining` | Requests remaining in the current window. | | `X-RateLimit-Reset` | Absolute Unix timestamp (seconds since epoch) when the current rate-limit window resets. | When a request is throttled (`429`), responses also include `Retry-After` with seconds to wait before retrying. servers: - url: https://api.platform.dakota.xyz description: Production environment - url: https://api.platform.sandbox.dakota.xyz description: Sandbox — safe for testing with simulated data security: - ApiKeyAuth: [] tags: - name: Agentic Payments x-beta: true description: >- Beta — agent-driven payments: provision agents, draft and approve spending mandates, accept reviewed instructions, and manage scheduled payments. **Prerequisites:** Customer onboarded; signer groups attached for recognition. **Related:** Wallets, Signer Groups, Transactions - name: Mandates x-beta: true description: >- Beta — spending mandates: signed, signer-bound authorizations governing what may be spent, approved or cancelled by a second recognized signer (§8 — the dual-control rule that every mandate mutation must be signed by a recognized signer OTHER than the bound one). Independent of agents and scheduled payments. **Prerequisites:** Signer groups attached for recognition. **Related:** Signer Groups, Transactions - name: Insights x-beta: true description: >- Beta — read-only insight: a deterministic report over a customer's agentic activity (funding balances, upcoming obligations, failures, mandate headroom and expiry), or — via `GET /insights` — over the whole client's book, with portfolio KPIs, daily series and a per-customer roll-up. Never moves money, never creates or changes anything. **Prerequisites:** Customer onboarded; insight is computed from the customer's scheduled payments, mandates, and wallets. **Related:** Agentic Payments, Mandates - name: Customers description: >- Manage customer entities representing businesses and organizations onboarded to Dakota. **Prerequisites:** Complete KYB via Onboarding endpoints before initiating money movement. **Related:** Onboarding, Recipients, Transactions, Accounts, Wallets - name: Wallets description: >- Manage wallets, balances, and wallet-to-signer-group relationships for custody and movement controls. **Prerequisites:** Customer must exist. Configure signer groups before policy-enforced workflows. **Related:** Signer Groups, Policies, Transactions, Customers - name: Transactions description: >- Create, cancel, and retrieve transaction records across account and wallet flows. **Prerequisites:** Accounts or destinations must be configured based on flow type. **Related:** Accounts, Recipients, Policies, Events - name: Recipients description: >- Manage recipient entities and destination rails used by customers for payouts and transfers. **Prerequisites:** Customer must be onboarded and active. **Related:** Customers, Transactions, Accounts, Onboarding - name: Accounts description: >- Manage account resources used for onramp, offramp, and swap operations. **Prerequisites:** Customer must be created and network/asset constraints must be known. **Related:** Customers, Transactions, Auto Transactions, Info - name: Auto Transactions description: >- Manage automated transaction configurations and execution history for account automation workflows. **Prerequisites:** Source account must exist and be configured for automation. **Related:** Accounts, Transactions, Events - name: Onboarding description: >- Manage KYB/KYC onboarding lifecycle, application documents, attestations, and verification steps. **Prerequisites:** Customer context and required entity/application metadata. **Related:** Customers, Exceptions, Recipients, Transactions - name: Policies description: >- Define and manage policy objects and rules used for transaction governance and risk controls. **Prerequisites:** Wallet and signer group resources should be configured for enforcement scenarios. **Related:** Wallets, Signer Groups, Transactions - name: Signer Groups description: >- Manage signer groups and signer assignments for multi-party authorization models. **Prerequisites:** Wallets should exist before linking signer groups. **Related:** Wallets, Policies, Transactions - name: Authentication description: >- Manage API authentication credentials and key lifecycle for platform access. **Prerequisites:** Client organization must be provisioned. **Related:** Users, Info - name: Users description: >- Manage client users, roles, and identity metadata for platform access control. **Prerequisites:** Auth credentials and client context must be established. **Related:** Authentication - name: Webhooks description: >- Manage outbound webhook targets and delivery configuration for event notifications. **Prerequisites:** Subscriber endpoint must be reachable and secured. **Related:** Events, Authentication - name: Payouts description: >- Manage where Dakota sends your accrued developer-fee payouts. **Prerequisites:** Auth credentials and client context must be established. **Related:** Events - name: RD Marketing Fee description: >- Everything behind your RD marketing fee: read what a month came to, declare the wallets you hold outside Dakota so the RD in them counts, and say where the fee should be sent. **Prerequisites:** Client must be in the RD marketing-fee programme. A month is readable once it has closed. **Related:** Wallets, Events - name: Self Serve description: >- Buy and track prepaid credits, and read the tiers and pricing they are sold at. **Prerequisites:** Auth credentials and client context must be established. **Related:** Billing - name: Events description: >- Retrieve event records emitted by platform operations for audit and troubleshooting. **Prerequisites:** Requesting client must have access to referenced resources. **Related:** Webhooks, Transactions, Onboarding - name: Info description: >- Read platform capability metadata, such as supported rails, networks, and assets. These operations are served under `/capabilities/*` - `GET /capabilities/countries` and `GET /capabilities/networks`. The tag name does not appear in the request paths. **Prerequisites:** Valid authentication headers. **Related:** Accounts, Transactions - name: Sandbox description: >- Trigger sandbox-only simulation endpoints for safe end-to-end integration testing with synthetic data. The sandbox host (`https://api.platform.sandbox.dakota.xyz`) also accepts a family of `X-Sandbox-*` request headers on most write endpoints (`Customers`, `Accounts`, `Transactions`, simulate endpoints) that let integrators drive deterministic failure modes — pick a preset via `X-Sandbox-Scenario`, or compose a custom one with `X-Sandbox-Error-Step`/`X-Sandbox-Error-Status`/`X-Sandbox-Error-Message`. `X-Sandbox-Instant-Completion` collapses async flows to a single synchronous step, and `X-Sandbox-Skip-Auto-Approval` keeps newly created KYB applications in `pending` for manual-review testing. All `X-Sandbox-*` headers are ignored in production. **Prerequisites:** Sandbox environment and test customer data. **Related:** Customers, Accounts, Transactions, Onboarding - name: Legal description: |- The legal documents customers accept — terms of service, privacy policy, e-sign notice, and partner agreements. Dakota publishes these here, and this is the authoritative source: the hosted onboarding flow, the dakota.xyz website, and your own integration all read the same revisions. Present the current revision to your customer before capturing their acceptance so the record reflects the text they actually saw. paths: /payment-agents/{payment_agent_id}/x402/mandates: post: tags: - Agentic Payments summary: Create an x402 spend mandate (BETA) description: > > **Beta** — early access. Creates the standing allowance an agent pays x402-metered resources under. Unlike a payment mandate this authorizes a BUDGET rather than a payee: x402 payees are discovered at request time from a seller's 402 response, so the controls are a per-call ceiling plus a rolling aggregate across every payee. Amounts are atomic units of the asset (USDC has 6 decimals, so "100000" is $0.10). operationId: createX402Mandate parameters: - $ref: '#/components/parameters/IdempotencyKeyHeader' - name: payment_agent_id in: path required: true schema: type: string requestBody: required: true content: application/json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/X402MandateRequest' example: asset: USDC network: base-sepolia max_per_call: '500000' max_per_window: '2000000' window_seconds: 3600 payee_policy: mode: domain_allowlist domains: - '*.marketpulse.example' responses: '201': description: Mandate created content: application/json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/X402MandateResponse' example: id: 2vWxX402Mandate000000000001 agent_id: 2vWxAgent000000000000000000 wallet_id: 2vWxWallet00000000000000000 asset: USDC network: base-sepolia max_per_call: '500000' max_per_window: '2000000' window_seconds: 3600 payee_policy: mode: domain_allowlist domains: - '*.marketpulse.example' valid_from: '2026-09-08T00:00:00Z' valid_until: '2026-10-08T00:00:00Z' window_committed: '100000' window_calls: 1 '400': description: > Malformed agent id or mandate request, an unsupported asset or network, or the agent is not active content: application/problem+json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/ProblemDetails' '401': description: | Missing or invalid credentials content: application/problem+json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/ProblemDetails' '403': description: | The caller lacks the permission this route requires content: application/problem+json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/ProblemDetails' '404': description: > Agentic payments are not enabled for the client, x402 is not enabled for the agent (enable it with POST /payment-agents/{payment_agent_id}/x402), or the agent was not found content: application/problem+json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/ProblemDetails' '429': description: | Too many requests content: application/problem+json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/ProblemDetails' '500': description: | Internal error content: application/problem+json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/ProblemDetails' components: parameters: IdempotencyKeyHeader: name: x-idempotency-key in: header required: true description: >- Unique key to ensure request idempotency. If the same key is used within a certain time window, the original response will be returned instead of executing the request again. schema: type: string format: uuid schemas: X402MandateRequest: type: object required: - asset - network - max_per_call properties: asset: type: string description: > Asset symbol. Only `USDC` is supported in this release; any other value is refused with a 400, since such a mandate could never be used. network: type: string description: >- Network the mandate covers, e.g. base-sepolia. Only Base and Base Sepolia are supported. max_per_call: type: string description: Per-authorization ceiling, in atomic units. max_per_window: type: string description: > Ceiling on total committed spend across ALL payees in one rolling window, in atomic units. Omit for unbounded (discouraged). window_seconds: type: integer description: Rolling aggregate window. Defaults to 24h. max_calls_per_window: type: integer description: Optional cap on authorizations per window. 0 is no cap. valid_for_seconds: type: integer description: Mandate lifetime from now. Defaults to 30 days. payee_policy: $ref: '#/components/schemas/X402PayeePolicy' X402MandateResponse: type: object required: - id - agent_id - wallet_id - asset - network - max_per_call - window_seconds - payee_policy - valid_from - valid_until properties: id: type: string agent_id: type: string wallet_id: type: string asset: type: string network: type: string max_per_call: type: string max_per_window: type: string window_seconds: type: integer max_calls_per_window: type: integer payee_policy: $ref: '#/components/schemas/X402PayeePolicy' valid_from: type: string format: date-time valid_until: type: string format: date-time revoked_at: type: string format: date-time window_committed: type: string description: > Spend already committed in the current window, in atomic units. Counts outstanding holds as well as settled ones. window_calls: type: integer description: Authorizations already issued in the current window. ProblemDetails: type: object required: - type - title - status description: | Error response following RFC 9457 Problem Details. Public API error responses use this format. example: type: https://docs.dakota.xyz/api-reference/errors#not-found title: Customer Not Found status: 404 detail: Customer cst_2abc123 was not found in your organization. instance: https://api.platform.dakota.xyz/customers/cst_2abc123 request_id: req_7f3a8b2c properties: type: type: string format: uri description: | URI reference identifying the problem type. Resolves to human-readable documentation. example: https://docs.dakota.xyz/api-reference/errors#not-found title: type: string description: >- Short, human-readable summary of the problem type. Stable across occurrences. example: Customer Not Found status: type: integer description: HTTP status code for this occurrence. example: 404 detail: type: string description: Human-readable explanation specific to this occurrence. example: Customer cst_2abc123 was not found in your organization. instance: type: string format: uri description: The request path that triggered this error. example: https://api.platform.dakota.xyz/customers/cst_2abc123 request_id: type: string description: Unique request identifier. Include when contacting support. example: req_7f3a8b2c errors: type: array description: Field-level validation errors (present for validation failures). items: $ref: '#/components/schemas/ValidationError' resolution_url: type: string format: uri description: | A link the customer can follow to CLEAR this error, present only on problems with a concrete self-service remedy. Today this is returned by `#terms-not-accepted`, where it points at the hosted flow in which the outstanding agreement can be signed. The link is token-gated and usable as-is — send the customer to it directly rather than parsing it out of `detail`. example: >- https://onboarding.dakota.xyz/applications/2abc123?token=tok_7f3a8b2c user_message: type: string description: | A plain-language rendition of `detail` written for the end customer, present when one exists for this error. `detail` names request fields and actions so a machine caller (such as a payment agent drafting proposals) can self-correct; `user_message` says the same thing without API vocabulary. Clients that relay errors into a human surface (chat, email, UI) should show `user_message` when present and fall back to `detail`. example: >- ACH payments pay out USD, so a USDC payout isn't possible on this rail. Change the payout currency to USD and try again. X402PayeePolicy: type: object description: > What an x402 mandate may pay for, beyond its budget. Omit the whole object to leave the budget as the only control. `mode` is required when the object is present, and the list must match it: `address_allowlist` needs `addresses` and reads no domains, `domain_allowlist` needs `domains` and reads no addresses, and `any_screened` enforces neither, so it carries no list. A policy that breaks those rules is refused with a 400 rather than stored as a restriction nothing applies. `any_screened` accepts any payee that passes address screening. `address_allowlist` pins the payee address itself. `domain_allowlist` pins the RESOURCE host the caller names when it asks for a signature - the readable form, since an operator approves "any metered API under this vendor's domain" rather than a hex address. Note that it bounds the resource, not the payee: a seller who prices one resource can be paid for it whatever address it nominates. required: - mode properties: mode: type: string enum: - any_screened - address_allowlist - domain_allowlist addresses: type: array description: >- Payee addresses. Required for address_allowlist, and refused otherwise. items: type: string domains: type: array description: > Resource host patterns. Required for domain_allowlist, and refused otherwise. An exact host, or a "*.example.com" suffix. items: type: string ValidationError: type: object required: - field - message properties: field: type: string description: Field path using dot notation for nested fields. example: bank_account.routing_number message: type: string description: Human-readable description of the field error. example: Routing number must be exactly 9 digits code: type: string description: Machine-readable error code for this field. example: invalid_format securitySchemes: ApiKeyAuth: type: apiKey in: header name: x-api-key ````