Credential Provenance
Record which wallet, agent, service account, or human approval created each credential.
Agent API Key Bootstrap Checklist
A no-login launch screen for one autonomous AI agent flow that creates, rotates, or delegates API keys, access tokens, wallet-auth grants, or tool credentials.
Ten bootstrap checks before launch
Single-Use Bootstrap Code
Use a short-lived one-time code between wallet verification and credential creation.
Explicit Signature Preimage
Document exactly what is signed: nonce, challenge, domain, scope, expiry, and intended audience.
Narrow Scope Ceiling
Make the agent unable to request broader scopes than its policy, even after a valid wallet signature.
Bounded Expiry
Set a maximum lifetime for generated credentials and reject unbounded or unusually long requests.
Revocation Drill
Test that credentials can be revoked quickly and that the agent fails closed after revocation.
Request IDs
Attach request IDs to challenge, verify, token, revocation, and failed validation events.
Format Errors Are 4xx
Unsupported key types, bad encodings, wrong signatures, and expired nonces should return clear 4xx errors, not 500s.
No Secret Logging
Check prompts, traces, errors, and analytics for leaked keys, signatures, auth headers, or wallet secrets.
Privilege Escalation Fixture
Replay one compromised-agent test that attempts to mint a broader or longer-lived credential than allowed.
Safe implementation evidence to collect
- Supported public key types and value encodings.
- Exact signature preimage and replay-protection rules.
- Success response schema for the verify step.
- Validation error examples for bad key format, expired nonce, wrong signature, and unsupported scope.
- Revocation behavior and maximum credential lifetime.
- A fixture proving the agent cannot create credentials outside its assigned permission ceiling.
What not to paste into any public issue or intake
Do not share real API keys, OAuth tokens, wallet private keys, seed phrases, session cookies, auth headers, customer data, card or bank details, payment pages, full transaction IDs, private handles, full names, or screenshots from private dashboards.
Need the working files?
The AI Agent Launch Pack includes local worksheets, permission-gate materials, prompt-injection checks, safe-intake templates, and a fictional sample report for one workflow.