Transaction Trust Scoring for Agent Commerce: Infrastructure for Verifiable Agent-to-Vendor Transactions
As autonomous AI agents begin executing financial transactions on behalf of human principals, the trust problem shifts from identity to transaction-level risk. We present the Transaction Trust Score (TTS), a real-time scoring system that aggregates four independent signals—entity verification, constraint compliance history, behavioral fingerprinting, and counterparty risk assessment—into a single trust verdict delivered in under 200ms. TTS is formalized as the Delegated Agent Commerce Protocol (DACP), a Protocol Buffer schema published on the Buf Schema Registry. We implement TTS as a Cloudflare Workers service integrated with Helix Fabric for entity verification and demonstrate differentiated scoring across verified and synthetic entities.
transaction trust scoreagent commerceDACPtrust scoringentity verificationHelix Fabricsynthetic identityProtocol BuffersCloudflare Workersagentic AI
Cite
Thomas Perry Jr.. "Transaction Trust Scoring for Agent Commerce: Infrastructure for Verifiable Agent-to-Vendor Transactions." Pastoral Tech, 2026-02-20. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.18718585. Available at: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18718585
BibTeX
@article{perry2026transaction,
author = {Perry, Thomas Jr.},
title = {Transaction Trust Scoring for Agent Commerce: Infrastructure for Verifiable Agent-to-Vendor Transactions},
year = {2026},
month = {02},
doi = {10.5281/zenodo.18718585},
url = {https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18718585},
publisher = {Zenodo},
license = {CC-BY-4.0}
}