Create a Verifiable Presentation bundling one or more credentials (e.g. intent + cart + payment mandates) for a given audience/verifier.
AI agents use create_presentation to create or update resources in Mcp Ap2 — usually the action step of a workflow, after the agent has gathered context. Every call changes real data in your Mcp Ap2 environment.
This tool creates (not merely reads) presentation objects that bundle payment mandates and financial credentials. While it does not move money directly, it constructs authorization artifacts essential to payment flows in AP2. Misuse could enable unauthorized payment presentations or credential forgery.
From the tool's definition 'Create a Verifiable Presentation bundling one or more credentials (e.g. intent + cart + payment mandates)' — creates and structures cryptographic credentials for payment authorization.
Documented attack patterns abuse exactly the kind of access create_presentation gives an agent:
PolicyLayer is an MCP gateway — it sits between your AI agents and Mcp Ap2, and nothing reaches the server without passing your rules. This is the rule we recommend for create_presentation:
{
"version": "1",
"default": "deny",
"tools": {
"create_presentation": {
"limits": [
{
"counter": "create_presentation_rate",
"window": "minute",
"max": 30,
"scope": "grant"
}
]
}
}
}create_presentation stays usable, but capped — an agent stuck in a loop can't make hundreds of changes a minute. Everything else on the server is denied unless you say otherwise.
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Create a Verifiable Presentation bundling one or more credentials (e.g. intent + cart + payment mandates) for a given audience/verifier. It is categorised as a Write tool in the Mcp Ap2 MCP Server, which means it can create or modify data. Consider rate limits to prevent runaway writes.
Register the Mcp Ap2 MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for create_presentation: allow, deny, rate-limit, or require approval. Point your MCP client at the PolicyLayer proxy URL and the rule is enforced on every call, before it reaches Mcp Ap2. Nothing to install.
create_presentation is a Write tool with medium risk. Write tools should be rate-limited to prevent accidental bulk modifications.
Yes. Add a rate_limit block to the create_presentation rule in your PolicyLayer policy. For example, setting max: 10 and window: 60 limits the tool to 10 calls per minute. Rate limits are tracked per agent session and reset automatically.
Set action: deny in the PolicyLayer policy for create_presentation. The AI agent will receive a policy violation error and cannot call the tool. You can also include a reason field to explain why the tool is blocked.
create_presentation is provided by the Mcp Ap2 MCP server (@codespar/mcp-ap2). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
Start from Mcp Ap2, add the rest of your stack, and see everything your agents can call. Then put policy on all of it.
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