Evidence the run may read
- Approved business need
- Functional and risk requirements
- Sourcing constraints and incumbent context
production blueprint · procurement
Supplier discovery brief agent blueprint.
Translate an approved sourcing need into neutral requirements, research questions, and a reviewer-controlled supplier discovery plan.
Search intent: AI agent for supplier discovery
Published by a2a cloudProduct-source methodology →
01 · the contract
Start from a bounded job, not a blank chat box.
trigger
A procurement owner approves a category or supplier discovery exercise.
owner
procurement owner
agent stops at
The category manager approves criteria, research sources, and any supplier outreach.
KPI · decrease
supplier long-list preparation time (days). Measure approved sourcing need to reviewer-accepted discovery brief.
outputs
Artifacts the run must produce
- Neutral supplier criteria
- Research and evidence plan
- Long-list review packet
02 · topology
Small specialists. Named handoffs. One accountable decision.
Each stage produces an artifact another stage can inspect. The final node is a person, not an autonomous write to an external system.
- 01
intake
Validate and normalize the supplier discovery brief inputs.
- 02
need normalizer
Produce the neutral supplier criteria.
- 03
market research planner
Produce the research and evidence plan.
- 04
category manager reviewer
Challenge the supplier discovery brief result and prepare an approval packet.
- 05
procurement owner
The category manager approves criteria, research sources, and any supplier outreach.
intake→ validated input packet →need-normalizer
need-normalizer→ Neutral supplier criteria →market-research-planner
market-research-planner→ Research and evidence plan →category-manager-reviewer
category-manager-reviewer→ approval packet with evidence references →human-approver
03 · authority
Grant the run only what this case needs.
Source material is read-only. Drafts land in a case-specific output path. Tools may read or propose; the human gate owns the external write.
case inputs
workspace/procurement/supplier-discovery-brief/inputs/**Read only the evidence attached to this workflow instance.
case outputs
workspace/procurement/supplier-discovery-brief/outputs/**Write drafts and evidence artifacts without modifying source records.
approved tools
procurement:supplier-discovery-brief:read-or-proposeInvoke only tools explicitly granted for this run; external writes remain gated.
04 · implementation
A private, bounded starting manifest.
The blueprint starts private, caps its DAG, disables replanning, and exposes no public endpoint. Add only the tools and data adapters this workflow has approved.
a2a.yamlsafe starting point
name: procurement-supplier-discovery-brief
version: 0.1.0
entrypoint: agent:BlueprintAgent
expose:
public: false
composition:
planning: deterministic_dag
max_nodes: 6
max_parallel: 1
max_replans: 005 · acceptance test
Pass only with evidence.
- 01
Evidence traceability
Every material conclusion cites an input artifact or a scoped tool result from this run.
- 02
Criteria are measurable, traceable to the approved need, and do not favor an incumbent without documented rationale.
Criteria are measurable, traceable to the approved need, and do not favor an incumbent without documented rationale.
- 03
Approval boundary
The run stops at a proposal and records the human decision before any external side effect.
failure containment
Stop small. Preserve the evidence.
The business need mixes mandatory requirements with undocumented preferences or predetermined outcomes.
Containment: Return a partial result with unresolved items; do not broaden scope or perform an external write.
Operator: Attach the missing evidence, narrow the brief, or explicitly approve a new scoped run.
A required input or tool grant is unavailable.
Containment: Stop the affected branch and preserve completed artifacts in the case output workspace.
Operator: Grant only the missing resource or continue with that branch marked out of scope.
06 · proof
Sign the run facts. Keep money in the billing ledger.
Current platform receipts sign caller identity or classification, skill, bounded input evidence, verified grant IDs when present, outcome or result preview, and timing. Optional file, tool, artifact, handoff, evaluation, and review fields require separate instrumentation and are not populated by default. Price, fees, payouts, and later human approvals remain separate platform records.
The example uses only fields populated by the current platform sealing paths. It is illustrative, not a record of a real customer run.
ExecutionReceipt · selected fieldsEd25519 token
{
"receipt_id": "rcpt_01J...",
"schema_version": 1,
"agent_name": "procurement-supplier-discovery-brief",
"caller": "user:workflow-owner",
"task_id": "case_supplier_discovery_brief",
"skill_name": "supplier_discovery_brief",
"input_hash": "4d7c...9a2f",
"grant_ids": [
"grt_case_inputs",
"grt_tool_propose"
],
"status": "ok",
"result_preview": "Output prepared: Neutral supplier criteria. Human decision remains separate.",
"elapsed_ms": 4218
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put the pattern to work
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