Protocols
The standards AI agents use to find, buy from and pay a store, and what tragent checks for each.
Shared catalogue standardUCP
The Universal Commerce Protocol. A shared format Google and Shopify use so an agent can read your catalogue and build a basket without scraping your pages.
ChatGPT checkoutACP
The Agentic Commerce Protocol, from OpenAI and Stripe. It is how ChatGPT completes a purchase on your store.
Payment authorisationAP2
The Agent Payments Protocol. It proves a real person authorised the agent to spend, so you are not taking an agent's word for it.
Direct tool accessMCP
The Model Context Protocol. It lets an assistant call your store's own functions directly instead of driving your website.
Browser agent checkoutWebMCP
The Web Model Context Protocol. Your pages tell a browser agent which actions they support — Shopify's get_checkout and complete_checkout, for example — so it calls them instead of guessing at buttons.
Agent discoveryA2A
Agent-to-Agent. It lets other agents find and talk to any agent you publish.