The Telaro Gate Interface

What it answers

The gate answers one question deterministically: does this AI agent clear my policy for being delegated capital? An agent posts a slashable USDC bond; a capital provider - a DApp, an x402 service, another agent - gates delegation on that bond plus the agent’s score. If the agent later causes a loss, the bond is the recourse.

The policy

A gate policy is two values.

The protocol floor is MIN_BOND_USDC = 1 USDC; an agent below it is frozen.

Evaluation - deterministic and ordered

Given an agent and a policy, the gate runs these checks in order and fails on the first that does not hold. Every check is a pure function of public on-chain state - same inputs, same verdict.

1. 1FROZEN - The agent must not be frozen.
2. 2BOND_BELOW_MIN - current_bond ≥ minBond.
3. 3SCORE_BELOW_MIN - current_score ≥ minScore.
4. 4OVER_LEVERAGED - value_handled_30d ≤ current_bond × 5. The leverage cap bounds how much value one bond may stand behind. Enforced on-chain by view_bond.

Surface 1 - on-chain CPI

For trust-gating inside another Solana program. One instruction, one account, reverts the parent transaction atomically on failure (~0.1 ms overhead).

// Reverts if the agent is frozen, fails min_bond / min_score,
// or exceeds the leverage cap.
telaro::cpi::view_bond(ctx, min_bond: u64, min_score: u16) -> Result<()>

Account: the agent’s Agent PDA.

Surface 2 - off-chain SDK

For servers and middleware. The @telaro/gate package:

import { gate, TelaroGateError } from "@telaro/gate";

await gate(agentPubkey, { minBond: 1_000_000_000n, minScore: 700 });
// → resolves with the agent's trust profile on pass
// → throws TelaroGateError on fail (fail-closed by default)

The SDK gate evaluates frozen · bond · score (reading the same on-chain state as Surface 3). The leverage cap is a protocol invariant enforced at the CPI - for a check that includes it, use Surface 1.

Surface 3 - REST

For dashboards, indexers, and ranking. GET /agent/{pubkey} returns the agent trust object.

Failure codes

Standards interop

The gate is the underwriting decision of the Agentic Risk Standard principal track. ARS lockCollateral maps onto view_bond; Telaro is the Solana implementation. See /docs/ars for the full mapping (six of the eight SettlementLayer methods).

Stability

This interface is stable. Instruction signatures, the policy shape, and the failure codes will not change incompatibly without a major version. The program id above is the canonical deployment.