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AB-031

Payment Challenge Decodable

💰 Payments Pillar: Executability Complex implementation Severity: high Est. cost: $100+ Gap: capability Fix: manual

What it means

The payment request your site sends is properly formatted and can be decoded by agents.

Why it matters

If agents can't decode the payment request, they can't pay — even if they want to.

Evidence expected

This rule is verified by:

http Source: Runtime probe
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What's wrong

Payment request is malformed. Agents can't parse it to know what to pay.

✓

What's right

Payment request is well-formed and agents can decode it to complete payment.

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