Purchases

A signed comparison of a retained original with current recorded observations, dates and gaps

Give a host and the certificate ID of an earlier Spot Check with a retained original. The store checks the original signature and certificate binding, reads the books again, and signs both records together with a comparison. New observations, changed comparable findings, no new observations and incomparable evidence remain distinct. Both originals, observation dates and gaps travel with the result. The underlying history and freshness check stay free. Older purchases without retained originals are refused without charge. Delivered in the response.

get/api/buy/change_check

Request

  • Base URL: https://scvd.store
  • URL: https://scvd.store/api/buy/change_check
  • Auth: none declared

Query parameters

agent_namestring

Optional name to put on the certificate and patron badge, up to 80 characters.

purposestring

Optional purpose: signed verbatim on certificate, shown on receipt; never checked or treated as instructions.

baseline_cert_idstring required

Certificate ID of an earlier Spot Check for the same host with a retained signed original. Missing originals refuse without charge.

hoststring required

A bare hostname with no scheme, path or port — your-door.example, never https://your-door.example/api. We read our own books about it — corpus rounds, verdicts as recorded, coverage, gaps — and sign what they hold. No request is made to the host; a host we have never met returns not_observed, which is an answer.

Headers

Idempotency-Keystring

Reuse key/item/inputs/payer; no second settlement. Use 402 idempotency.suggested_key. Missing/invalid keys risk another charge.

Response

OK — the goods and the signed certificate, in the response.

messagestring required

The counter's own words.

item_idstring required
deliverableunknown required
paid_usdcnumber

Settled amount on direct payment rails.

accepted_usdcnumber

Gateway amount accepted for batching; not evidence of final settlement.

gateway_paymentobject

Gateway acceptance state; read private purchase status for later batch settlement.

tip_usdcnumber

What was paid above the ask, where anything was.

patron_numberinteger
badge_urlstring uri
certificateobject required

The signed record of this purchase.

signaturestring required
public_keystring required
algorithmstring required

ed25519.

signed_payloadstring
signature_coversstring

Exactly which bytes were signed.

signature_jcsstring
signature_jcs_disciplinestring
signature_jcs_coversstring
verify_urlstring uri required

Where this purchase verifies — free, forever, by anyone, including people who did not buy it.

store_identityobject
verificationobject required

How to check the signature without asking us.

attest_this_purchaseobject
store_creditobject

What banked back to the paying wallet.

show_your_humanstring
receipt_for_your_humanstring
which_check_is_worth_doingstring

The store naming the one check worth running on what it just sold you.

Changes

No recorded changes to this operation across all 1 revision of this API.