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title: "Agent-as-Contracting-Party: definition | KYE Protocol™ glossary"
description: "Agent-as-Contracting-Party: The legal posture in which an AI agent's authority — the delegation it acts under, the purpose-permission it is scoped to, the revocation conditions…"
url: https://kyeprotocol.com/glossary/agent-as-contracting-party/
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source: "KYE Protocol"
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> Agent-as-Contracting-Party: The legal posture in which an AI agent's authority — the delegation it acts under, the purpose-permission it is scoped to, the revocation conditions…

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# Agent-as-Contracting-Party

The legal posture in which an AI agent's authority — the delegation it acts under, the purpose-permission it is scoped to, the revocation conditions…

The legal posture in which an AI agent's authority — the delegation it acts under, the purpose-permission it is scoped to, the revocation conditions it respects — is expressed as URN-addressable primitives that a contract clause can reference verbatim. With KYE Protocol™, “the agent may pay suppliers up to €100k under purpose X” becomes `kye:purpose-permission:supplier-payment:eur-up-to-100k` + `kye:delegation:cfo` — enforceable by reference to bytes rather than inferred from vendor logs. Underpins the Legal Pack™ (`KYE-SECTOR-LEGAL-001`). See the Legal sector page.

KYE™ Minute explains this term in an episode dated 16 February 2027, once podcast audio is switched on.

**Source** The KYE Protocol™ glossary, [as published](https://kyeprotocol.com/glossary/#agent-as-contracting-party). Not legal advice.