> ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.orbit.devotel.io/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Delegate an attenuated sub-agent mandate > Mint an attenuated CHILD mandate from a live `parent` for an agent-as-tool / A2A re-delegation hop (orchestrator → sub-agent, or transitively sub-agent → sub-sub-agent). The child's allowlists, invocation cap, and expiry are each narrowed to a subset of the parent's — a delegated mandate can never end up with more authority than it was given — and it carries a `parentMandateId` + `parentDigest` pointer baked into its own consent digest so the ancestry link cannot be forged or repointed. Delegation is refused from a parent that is revoked, expired, exhausted, or fails its own integrity check. Requires the `agents:write` scope and an owner, admin, or developer role. Audit-logged. ## OpenAPI ````yaml /openapi.yaml post /api/v1/agents/agent-authorization-mandate/delegate openapi: 3.1.0 info: title: Devotel CPaaS API description: Orbit by Devotel — Communications Platform as a Service API version: 1.0.0 contact: name: Devotel url: https://devotel.io email: support@devotel.io license: name: Proprietary servers: - url: https://api.orbit.devotel.io description: Production security: - Bearer: [] - ApiKey: [] tags: - name: Messages description: >- Send and manage messages across all channels (SMS, WhatsApp, RCS, Email, Viber, etc.) - name: Fax description: >- List and track fax (MMS/T.38) transmissions on Telnyx-backed fax numbers (sending flows through the Messaging API) - name: Agents description: AI agent creation, configuration, and execution - name: Voice description: Voice calls, IVR, conferencing, and SIP trunking - name: OnCall description: On-call rotations and escalation policy planning for incident alerting - name: Webhooks description: Webhook endpoint management and delivery logs - name: Numbers description: Phone number search, provisioning, and configuration - name: Brand Identity description: >- Unified cross-channel brand trust posture (10DLC, toll-free, WhatsApp, RCS, branded calling, number KYC) - name: Contacts description: Contact management, segmentation, and lifecycle tracking - name: Campaigns description: Marketing campaign orchestration and analytics - name: Flows description: Automation flow builder and execution engine - name: Templates description: Message template management and approval workflows - name: Settings description: Organization, channel, and user preference settings - name: Verify description: OTP generation and verification across channels - name: Push description: Push notification delivery via FCM and APNs - name: Integrations description: Third-party service connections and OAuth management - name: CDP description: >- Customer Data Platform — activation surface (CRM object sync, streaming destinations, ad-audience activation) - name: Files description: >- Server-to-server media upload, listing, retrieval, and deletion (signed-URL backed) - name: Commerce description: >- Omnichannel conversational-commerce — persistent cart + checkout state machine, channel-agnostic hosted pay-by-link, native WhatsApp checkout, and AP2-style agent payment mandates. - name: Sync description: >- Real-time shared-state primitive (Twilio Sync parity) — Documents, Maps, Lists, and ephemeral Streams, with change events relayed over the /api/v1/ws/sync WebSocket gateway - name: Risk description: >- Unified cross-channel Trust & Fraud risk scoring — fuses SMS-pumping, URL-reputation, Verify Fraud Guard, and Voice Biometrics signals into one composite verdict queryable before a send or a call. - name: Orby description: >- In-dashboard Orby operator assistant: streamed assistant turns, conversation threads, product knowledge-base search, and the tool-action approval gate. Available to signed-in operators only (dashboard session auth — API-key requests are rejected). paths: /api/v1/agents/agent-authorization-mandate/delegate: post: tags: - Agents summary: Delegate an attenuated sub-agent mandate description: >- Mint an attenuated CHILD mandate from a live `parent` for an agent-as-tool / A2A re-delegation hop (orchestrator → sub-agent, or transitively sub-agent → sub-sub-agent). The child's allowlists, invocation cap, and expiry are each narrowed to a subset of the parent's — a delegated mandate can never end up with more authority than it was given — and it carries a `parentMandateId` + `parentDigest` pointer baked into its own consent digest so the ancestry link cannot be forged or repointed. Delegation is refused from a parent that is revoked, expired, exhausted, or fails its own integrity check. Requires the `agents:write` scope and an owner, admin, or developer role. Audit-logged. requestBody: required: true content: application/json: schema: type: object additionalProperties: false required: - parent - id - agentId properties: parent: $ref: '#/components/schemas/AgentAuthorizationMandate' id: type: string minLength: 1 maxLength: 128 description: Opaque, caller-supplied id for the new child mandate. agentId: type: string minLength: 1 maxLength: 128 description: The sub-agent receiving the delegated authority. allowedActions: type: - 'null' - array items: type: string minLength: 1 maxLength: 256 maxItems: 256 description: >- Action allowlist to further narrow to. Omit or send empty to inherit the parent's unchanged. allowedTools: type: - 'null' - array items: type: string minLength: 1 maxLength: 256 maxItems: 256 description: >- Tool allowlist to further narrow to. Omit or send empty to inherit the parent's unchanged. allowedDataCategories: type: - 'null' - array items: type: string minLength: 1 maxLength: 256 maxItems: 256 description: >- Data-category allowlist to further narrow to. Omit or send empty to inherit the parent's unchanged. maxInvocations: type: - 'null' - integer minimum: 1 description: >- Invocation cap to further narrow to. Omit to inherit the parent's cap; the effective cap is the minimum of this and the parent's, never higher. expiresAt: type: - 'null' - integer description: >- Expiry to further narrow to. Omit to inherit the parent's expiry; the effective expiry is the earlier of this and the parent's, never later. responses: '200': description: The minted, attenuated child mandate snapshot. content: application/json: schema: type: object properties: data: $ref: '#/components/schemas/AgentAuthorizationMandate' meta: $ref: '#/components/schemas/ResponseMeta' '422': description: >- Delegation refused — the parent is not delegatable (revoked, expired, exhausted, or integrity failure), a requested allowlist shares nothing with the parent's (which would broaden it), or the request body was malformed. `error.code` is `VALIDATION_ERROR`. content: application/json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/ErrorEnvelope' components: schemas: AgentAuthorizationMandate: type: object description: >- A scoped, revocable, action-capped authorization an AI agent acts under — a serializable snapshot the caller stores and round-trips in each request body. The scope fields (principal, agent, allowlists, invocation cap, expiry, ancestry) are immutable after issue and bound by `consentDigest`; only `status`, `invocationCount`, `updatedAt`, and `revokedAt` advance over the mandate's life. A delegated (child) mandate additionally carries a `parentMandateId` + `parentDigest` pointer to the parent it was attenuated from. required: - id - agentId - principalId - allowedActions - allowedTools - allowedDataCategories - maxInvocations - invocationCount - status - consentDigest - expiresAt - createdAt - updatedAt - revokedAt - parentMandateId - parentDigest properties: id: type: string description: Opaque, caller-supplied mandate id (stable across actions). agentId: type: string description: >- The agent authorized to act — an Orbit agent id or an external A2A/MCP identity. principalId: type: string description: >- The principal (account holder / contact / end-user) who granted consent. allowedActions: type: array items: type: string description: >- Action allowlist — the verbs the agent may perform (e.g. `profile:read`, `booking:create`). An empty array means any action is in scope. Stored trimmed, sorted, and de-duped. allowedTools: type: array items: type: string description: >- Tool allowlist — the specific tool ids the agent may invoke. An empty array means any tool is in scope. allowedDataCategories: type: array items: type: string description: >- Data-category allowlist — the categories of data the agent may access (e.g. `contact_profile`, `order_history`). An empty array means any category is in scope. maxInvocations: type: integer description: >- Cumulative ceiling on the number of actions authorized under this mandate (a positive integer). The non-payment analog of a spend cap. invocationCount: type: integer description: Number of actions authorized so far (starts at 0). status: type: string enum: - active - exhausted - revoked - expired description: >- Current lifecycle status. `exhausted`, `revoked`, and `expired` are terminal — no further action is authorized once a mandate leaves `active`. consentDigest: type: string description: >- SHA-256 hex commitment over the immutable scope — the cryptographic consent record. Recompute and compare via the `/verify` endpoint. expiresAt: type: - 'null' - integer description: Epoch-ms after which the mandate is dead, or null for no expiry. createdAt: type: integer description: Epoch-ms the mandate was issued. updatedAt: type: integer description: Epoch-ms of the last status/count change. revokedAt: type: - 'null' - integer description: Epoch-ms the mandate was revoked, or null while still issuable. parentMandateId: type: - 'null' - string description: >- Id of the mandate this one was delegated from, or null for a root mandate the principal issued directly. Part of the immutable scope. parentDigest: type: - 'null' - string description: >- The parent mandate's `consentDigest` at the moment this child was minted — the cryptographic ancestry pointer. Null for a root mandate. ResponseMeta: type: object required: - request_id - timestamp additionalProperties: false properties: request_id: type: string description: Unique request identifier (also returned as X-Request-Id header) timestamp: type: string format: date-time docs_url: type: string format: uri nullable: true ErrorEnvelope: type: object required: - error - meta additionalProperties: false properties: error: type: object required: - code - message - status additionalProperties: false properties: code: type: string message: type: string status: type: integer details: type: object nullable: true additionalProperties: true meta: type: object required: - request_id - timestamp additionalProperties: false properties: request_id: type: string description: Unique request identifier (also returned as X-Request-Id header) timestamp: type: string format: date-time docs_url: type: string format: uri nullable: true securitySchemes: Bearer: type: http scheme: bearer bearerFormat: JWT description: Dashboard JWT token from Clerk ApiKey: type: apiKey name: X-API-Key in: header description: Server-to-server API key (dv_live_sk_*) ````