Mandato brings cryptographic audit trails to AI agent actions

arXiv: AI + Accounting · Giovanni Racioppi · August 14, 2026 · 1 min read · Relevance: 78/100

Researchers propose Mandato, a protocol-level governance framework enforcing digitally signed mandates on AI agent actions with cryptographically chained audit trails—addressing authorization and a...

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