---
type: Article
name: "What is a Wallet, in the Selfe sense?"
id: "https://selfe.ai/insights/glossary/what-is-a-wallet-in-the-selfe-sense"
url: "https://selfe.ai/insights/glossary/what-is-a-wallet-in-the-selfe-sense"
publisher: "did:web:selfe.ai"
description: "The record of what a specific AI agent is currently authorised to spend, on whose behalf and up to what limit, checked before Folio settles anything against it."
datePublished: "2026-09-15T16:25:20.643Z"
author: The Selfe team
---

# What is a Wallet, in the Selfe sense?

> The record of what a specific AI agent is currently authorised to spend, on whose behalf and up to what limit, checked before Folio settles anything against it.

## In short

- A Wallet is a scoped record of what an agent is authorised to spend, for whom, and up to what limit.
- It's what gets checked, so a business never has to take an agent's word for its own authority.

Good for: Proving what a specific agent is currently allowed to spend. Not good for: Holding or moving money itself, that's Folio's job.

It's a scoped permission, not a place money sits: this agent, acting for this person, up to this amount, for this kind of purchase, current until it's revoked or it expires. A business's own systems never need to trust an agent's word for any of that; the Wallet is what gets checked instead.

## Good for

Proving what a specific agent is currently allowed to spend.

## Not good for

Holding or moving money itself, that's Folio's job.

## Act on this

- [Check whether an agent can buy from you](https://selfe.ai/agentic-commerce/buyability-check) — the free readiness scan.
- [Discover venues](https://selfe.ai/api/registry/discover) — `POST`, semantic browse across the registry.
- [Match a bookable answer](https://selfe.ai/api/registry/match) — `POST` with dates and party size.
- [Verify Selfe's identity](https://selfe.ai/.well-known/did.json) — `did:web:selfe.ai`.
- [Agent card](https://selfe.ai/.well-known/agent-card.json) — how to connect over A2A or MCP.