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Latch

Standing spend rules for the house.

Alexa+ filled a $250 cart and added things people excluded. A yes on checkout does not stop the next restock. Latch is the rule that stays after the chat dies.

Grant a cap. It restocks inside that cap. A price jump holds. You undo until 9pm. You revoke, and it stops.

Not a shopping chatbot. Not “confirm this one order.” Not a booking receipt.

Amazon Developer Hackathon · Alexa+ track · 23 Oct 2026. Product name is Latch.

Demo (about three minutes)

  1. Grant: Hill’s Science Diet 15lb, max $40, fire at 3 days left, hold if price jumps 15 percent, undo until 9pm. Card shows LCH-14.

  2. Time-skip to 3 days. It buys at $28. Card shows LED-8821 and mock order ORD-440.

  3. Kill the tab. “What did you buy?” Same IDs.

  4. Mutate the fixture to $33. Trigger. Hold. No charge.

  5. Undo the $28 buy. Ledger is undone.

  6. Revoke. Next trigger is denied.

Speech is illegal without entry_id and provider_ref. Empty ledger → it says it failed.

Local: npm run dev then open the printed URL. Buttons on the left are the tape.

Related MCP server: dingdawg-agent-wallet

Golden cases

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Case

Pass

1

Grant then trigger → commit under cap

committed + LED- + ORD-

2

Excluded SKU (Sony under a Hill’s rule)

denied / excluded_sku

3

Price +18%

held / price_jump

4

Undo before 9pm

undone

5

Undo after deadline

rejected

6

Revoke then trigger

denied / rule_revoked

7

New session

same entry_id

8

Empty ledger

cannot say “bought”

9

Qty 2 when max 1

denied / qty_exceeded

10

Clock advance, no grant

no buy

npm test

Protocol

  • MCP 2025-11-25 Streamable HTTP at POST /mcp

  • Tools: grant_latch, get_latch, run_triggers, undo_entry, revoke_latch

  • Demo-gated: advance_clock, set_catalog_price

  • Cards: /apps/grant.html, /apps/hold.html, /apps/ledger.html (resourceUri on mutating results)

  • State: D1 rules + ledger. Catalog: KV fixture hills-15lb / sony-headphones

  • Household: X-Latch-Household. No MCP session id required.

  • Privacy / terms: /privacy, /terms

Friction Amazon asked for: FRICTION.md.

Setup

Needs Node and Wrangler. No Token Factory key. No model.

npm install
npx wrangler types
npx wrangler d1 migrations apply latch --local
npm test
npm run dev

Deploy only when you want a public URL:

npx wrangler d1 create latch
npx wrangler kv namespace create CATALOG
# put the real ids in wrangler.jsonc, then:
npx wrangler types
npx wrangler d1 migrations apply latch --remote
npx wrangler deploy

Custom hostname later: mcp.latch.<your-domain>.

What this is not

  • No runtime LLM

  • No real Amazon cart

  • No VoiceCart confirmed=true checkout

  • No restaurant booking

  • No Alexa or Amazon in the product name

Law: PRODUCT.md. Design: DESIGN.md.

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