# Coffer AI-readable docs context

Product: Coffer is a buyer-side spend control layer for AI agents and paid API/tool workflows.

Primary claim: Approve agent spend before payment.

What Coffer does:
- Records spend intents before a paid API, tool, x402 endpoint, wallet, or manual vendor rail action runs.
- Checks vendor, amount, policy, budget, duplicate risk, agent allowlist, and approval need.
- Produces Spend Decision Records, approval evidence, audit trail, ledger/export state, and payment-boundary proof.

What Coffer is not:
- Not a wallet.
- Not a custodian.
- Not a payment facilitator.
- Not a settlement provider.
- Not an accounting system of record.

First customer path:
1. Create a workspace.
2. Create the starter request.
3. Approve or reject before cost.
4. Inspect the Spend Decision Record.
5. Connect one external agent through the Agent API.
6. Request paid rollout only after approved external-agent proof.

Core endpoints:
- POST /v1/spend-intents
- GET /v1/spend-intents/:id
- GET /v1/spend-decision-records
- GET /v1/spend-decision-records/export.csv
- POST /v1/spend-intents/:id/settlement-references

Useful pages:
- /guide
- /walkthrough
- /review
- /start
- /login