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Supplier onboarding readiness agent blueprint.

Assemble approved commercial, tax, security, legal, and ownership evidence into a go-live readiness checklist.

Search intent: AI agent for supplier onboarding

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01 · the contract

Start from a bounded job, not a blank chat box.

trigger

An approved supplier enters onboarding.

owner

procurement owner

agent stops at

Procurement and each accountable control owner approve activation in their systems.

KPI · increase

supplier onboarding first-pass readiness (percent). Measure approved suppliers reaching activation without a returned evidence packet.

inputs

Evidence the run may read

  • Approved supplier and award record
  • Required onboarding evidence
  • System, data, and payment setup owners
outputs

Artifacts the run must produce

  • Readiness and evidence matrix
  • Missing owner action list
  • Activation recommendation
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.

  1. 01

    intake

    Validate and normalize the supplier onboarding readiness inputs.

  2. 02

    evidence coordinator

    Produce the readiness and evidence matrix.

  3. 03

    dependency mapper

    Produce the missing owner action list.

  4. 04

    supplier onboarding reviewer

    Challenge the supplier onboarding readiness result and prepare an approval packet.

  5. 05

    procurement owner

    Procurement and each accountable control owner approve activation in their systems.

intakevalidated input packetevidence-coordinator
evidence-coordinatorReadiness and evidence matrixdependency-mapper
dependency-mapperMissing owner action listsupplier-onboarding-reviewer
supplier-onboarding-reviewerapproval packet with evidence referenceshuman-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.

read

case inputs

workspace/procurement/supplier-onboarding-readiness/inputs/**

Read only the evidence attached to this workflow instance.

write-output

case outputs

workspace/procurement/supplier-onboarding-readiness/outputs/**

Write drafts and evidence artifacts without modifying source records.

invoke-scoped-tool

approved tools

procurement:supplier-onboarding-readiness:read-or-propose

Invoke only tools explicitly granted for this run; external writes remain gated.

required human decision

Procurement and each accountable control owner approve activation in their systems.

Decision owner: procurement owner.

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-onboarding-readiness
version: 0.1.0
entrypoint: agent:BlueprintAgent
expose:
  public: false
composition:
  planning: deterministic_dag
  max_nodes: 6
  max_parallel: 1
  max_replans: 0
05 · acceptance test

Pass only with evidence.

  1. 01

    Evidence traceability

    Every material conclusion cites an input artifact or a scoped tool result from this run.

  2. 02

    Readiness is marked only when required evidence is current, attributable, and approved by its owner.

    Readiness is marked only when required evidence is current, attributable, and approved by its owner.

  3. 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 contracted entity, tax identity, payment verification, or required control evidence does not match.

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-onboarding-readiness",
  "caller": "user:workflow-owner",
  "task_id": "case_supplier_onboarding_readiness",
  "skill_name": "supplier_onboarding_readiness",
  "input_hash": "4d7c...9a2f",
  "grant_ids": [
    "grt_case_inputs",
    "grt_tool_propose"
  ],
  "status": "ok",
  "result_preview": "Output prepared: Readiness and evidence matrix. Human decision remains separate.",
  "elapsed_ms": 4218
}
put the pattern to work

Start private. Scope the authority. Require the decision.

Deploy the workflow as a bounded internal agent, verify its outputs and the receipt fields actually emitted, then expand only the scopes your acceptance test proves it needs.