agent-card-provisioning

What This Skill Does

The agent-card-provisioning skill enables AI agents to autonomously manage corporate spending by issuing virtual payment cards on-demand. By integrating directly with the ProxyHQ infrastructure, this skill allows agents to create single-use or limited-access virtual cards constrained by specific spending policies. Instead of sharing static corporate card numbers, the agent generates a unique, secure payment token for every specific purchase intent. Each card comes with granular controls, including merchant category codes (MCCs), maximum transaction amounts, and automated expiration windows. This significantly reduces the risk of fraud and ensures that all financial activity is automatically logged, categorized, and reconciled against the original purchase intent, providing finance teams with a clean, immutable audit trail.

Installation

To integrate this skill into your environment, run the following command within your terminal or OpenClaw management console:

clawhub install openclaw/skills/skills/proxyhq/agent-card-provisioning

Ensure that your environment has valid API credentials configured for your ProxyHQ account, as the agent requires these tokens to authenticate card generation requests and pull sensitive payment details when necessary.

Use Cases

• Automated Procurement: Agents can autonomously purchase office supplies, SaaS subscriptions, or cloud infrastructure credits within pre-defined departmental budgets.
• Vendor Onboarding: Agents can provision time-limited cards for one-off contractor payments or micro-tasks, ensuring funds cannot be siphoned beyond the intended scope.
• Travel & Expense Management: Agents can issue specific travel cards for employees that are restricted to travel-related MCCs (flights, hotels, rental cars) with a set daily budget, automatically expiring once the trip duration concludes.

Example Prompts

1. "I need to sign up for a new cloud monitoring service; please provision a virtual card with a $50 limit restricted to IT services."
2. "Generate a card for the Amazon purchase of the ergonomic desk chair I researched earlier, ensuring the transaction is tagged under office supplies."
3. "Check the status of the card I requested for the software subscription and provide the full details so I can complete the checkout process manually."

Tips & Limitations

• One Intent per Purchase: Always create a new payment intent for every distinct transaction. This mapping is vital for reconciliation and security.
• Descriptive Intentions: When requesting a card, provide a clear description (e.g., 'Q3 Marketing Tooling') to make expense reports readable for your accounting team.
• Policy Management: Always set the 'auto-approve threshold' to a conservative amount. If a purchase is vital but over your threshold, the system will trigger a human-in-the-loop workflow, which may introduce latency to your agent's execution.
• Sensitive Access: Avoid calling get_sensitive unless strictly required for a transaction. The full PAN should only be handled in memory for the duration of the payment execution.