Is capability thinking becoming common?

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Alan Karp

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Sep 24, 2025, 12:06:06 AM (5 days ago) Sep 24

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The Google Agent Payments Protocol (AP2) uses something called Intent Mandates to limit what your agent can do on your behalf. They look like capabilities without attenuated delegation. That's not good in general, but it is probably enough when asking an AI agent to buy something for you.