Direct answer
Machine Commerce Entitlement, in this definition, is limited to the following inspected scope. Current private machine-commerce offer and entitlement state model. Current Preview-only lifecycle behavior and refusal states. The answer carries the source boundaries forward and does not infer authority from a neighboring topic.
Term boundaries and disambiguation
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Applied scope: Current private machine-commerce offer and entitlement state model. Current Preview-only lifecycle behavior and refusal states.
Definition and operating context
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Evidence and exact locators
CARP/CABEZON product federation contract — offer state, identity binding, entitlement, delivery reference, and acknowledgement types. Establishes: Current private machine-commerce offer and entitlement state model.
CABEZON Preview adapter — Preview enquiry, replay, delivery, and acknowledgement boundaries. Establishes: Current Preview-only lifecycle behavior and refusal states.
What the evidence does not establish
The contract is not evidence of an external customer, settled payment, escrow, or Production availability.
Preview fixtures and canaries are synthetic and do not establish commercial demand or Production operation.
This route must not claim research-source duplication.
This route must not claim unreleased evidence claims.
Related definitions and applications
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Questions this page can answer
What does Machine Commerce Entitlement mean in this bounded context?
Machine Commerce Entitlement, in this definition, is limited to the following inspected scope. Current private machine-commerce offer and entitlement state model. Current Preview-only lifecycle behavior and refusal states. The answer carries the source boundaries forward and does not infer authority from a neighboring topic.
Which inspected sources support this definition answer?
CARP/CABEZON product federation contract (repository source inspected 2026-09-05), at offer state, identity binding, entitlement, delivery reference, and acknowledgement types, supports current private machine-commerce offer and entitlement state model. CABEZON Preview adapter (repository source inspected 2026-09-05), at Preview enquiry, replay, delivery, and acknowledgement boundaries, supports current Preview-only lifecycle behavior and refusal states.
What does the evidence not establish?
The contract is not evidence of an external customer, settled payment, escrow, or Production availability. Preview fixtures and canaries are synthetic and do not establish commercial demand or Production operation. Property boundary: This route may apply authority; it cannot redefine or inherit the authority of its canonical owner.
Which definition or canonical owner must be read first?
Read the maha-strategies definition at https://www.mahastrategies.com/clearing/agent-governance/identity-bound-agents/definition first. The present page applies that definition through its narrower route role.
What source, policy, implementation, or release change would require revision?
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