Agentic Commerce Protocol
- Launch date
- September 29, 2025
- Developer
- Stripe & OpenAI
- License
- Apache 2.0
- Key fact
- 1,401 GitHub Stars · Open standard by Stripe & OpenAI
Real-time tracker for agentic commerce protocols, AI platform support, and market data. Every data point sourced from primary references.
Agentic commerce runs on two distinct layers — the commerce protocols that handle transactions, and the agent infrastructure protocols that enable agents to act.
GitHub Stars as a proxy for developer ecosystem traction
Source: GitHub. Stars reflect developer community signals, not commercial deployment metrics.
GitHub Stars · May 2026
Which AI platforms support which agentic commerce protocols
Last verified: June 2026
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| AI Platform | MCP | A2A | AP2 | ACP | UCP | Sources |
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| ChatGPT / OpenAI | ||||||
| Google Gemini | ||||||
| Microsoft Copilot | ||||||
| Perplexity | ||||||
| Claude / Anthropic | ||||||
| xAI / Grok |
Protocol support across major ecommerce platforms
Last verified: June 2026
Tracking the six protocols most relevant to merchant integration: ACP and UCP handle commerce transactions; AP2, MPP, and x402 cover agent-driven payments (card, machine-to-machine, and stablecoin rails respectively); MCP enables agent-to-tool connectivity. A2A and WebMCP operate at the agent-communication and browser layers and are excluded here.
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| Platform | ACP | UCP | AP2 | MPP | MCP | x402 | Sources |
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| Shopify | |||||||
| WooCommerce | |||||||
| Salesforce Commerce Cloud | |||||||
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| Adobe Commerce | |||||||
| Wix |
What leaders are saying about the agentic commerce shift
“AI agents will be a big part of how we shop in the not-so-distant future. To help lay the groundwork, we partnered with Shopify, Etsy, Wayfair, Target and Walmart, and endorsed by 20+ more.”
Sundar Pichai
CEO, Google & Alphabet
January 11, 2026
“I'm really really excited about Agentic Commerce. There is so much amazing stuff being built. Everything I test just feels delightful and magical.”
Tobi Lütke
CEO, Shopify
December 23, 2025
“In 2026, AI agents won't just assist your shopping — they will complete your purchases, powered by Visa's global scale, standards leadership, and unparalleled commitment to secure agentic commerce.”
Rubail Birwadker
SVP Head of Growth Products & Partnerships, Visa
December 18, 2025
“By 2030, the US B2C retail market alone could see up to $1 trillion in orchestrated revenue from agentic commerce, with global projections reaching as high as $3 trillion to $5 trillion.”
McKinsey & Company
QuantumBlack AI Research
October 17, 2025
Major developments from the past 90 days — verified before publishing
Last updated: June 6, 2026
At Money20/20 Europe, Worldline and ING, together with Mastercard, executed Europe's first end-to-end agentic payment transaction in production — between an ING cardholder and a Dutch merchant, running across the Mastercard network on shared infrastructure spanning the Netherlands and Belgium. A merchant AI agent found in-budget concert tickets and completed the purchase only after explicit consumer approval, demonstrating a fully Europe-orchestrated agent-initiated, authenticated payment.
Mastercard NewsroomAt Money20/20 Europe, AI fashion-search app Hey Savi launched the UK's first agentic commerce experience with native in-app checkout, powered by PayPal's Agentic Commerce Services. Debenhams Group — spanning Debenhams, Karen Millen, Boohoo and Pretty Little Thing — is the first UK retailer to bring end-to-end AI-powered shopping to consumers, with search-to-purchase across more than 10,000 brands.
PayPal NewsroomKlarna launched the Klarna Shopping Search app inside ChatGPT, letting consumers describe what they want in natural language and instantly see visual results with live prices, availability and offers from multiple merchants, then redirect to the merchant to complete the purchase. The app connects ChatGPT to Klarna's database of more than 100 million products and 400 million merchant listings across 13 markets.
Klarna NewsroomFireblocks joined the Linux Foundation-hosted x402 Foundation and launched its Agentic Payments Suite — infrastructure for agent-initiated payments using any stablecoin on any blockchain, spanning the wallet infrastructure agents use to send funds through to the acceptance layer merchants use to receive them. Fireblocks also contributed a security extension that adds request integrity and spend governance to the x402 protocol.
PR Newswire (Fireblocks)Google introduced Universal Cart at I/O 2026 — a cross-merchant AI shopping cart that works in Search, the Gemini app, YouTube and Gmail, with background deal-finding, price-history and back-in-stock alerts. UCP-powered checkout launches with Nike, Sephora, Target, Ulta, Walmart, Wayfair and Shopify merchants including Fenty and Steve Madden, with rollout to Canada and Australia in the coming months and the UK to follow. UCP also extends to YouTube in the US and to hotel and local food-delivery verticals.
Google BlogCloudflare announced a collaboration with Anthropic to launch Cloudflare Environments for Claude Managed Agents — letting organizations run core agent loops on Anthropic's Claude platform while using Cloudflare's global network and Workers developer platform to execute code, secure private connections and provide agents with specialized tools. The integration strengthens the production-grade infrastructure underneath agentic workloads that increasingly transact via x402, MPP and ACP.
Cloudflare PressMastercard and JD.com announced a strategic partnership in Beijing to build a more connected, secure, and intelligent commerce ecosystem. The companies will explore agentic AI-powered purchasing through Mastercard Agent Pay, expand cross-border supply-chain finance for SMBs, broaden international card acceptance in China, and jointly develop AI-driven anti-fraud and identity authentication.
Mastercard NewsroomAWS announced Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Payments (preview), a managed service that lets AI agents autonomously pay for APIs, web content, MCP servers, and other agents. Built with Coinbase (stablecoin wallet infrastructure) and Stripe/Privy (wallet infrastructure and payment rails), the service manages the full payment lifecycle — wallet authentication, transaction execution, per-session spending limits, end-user authorization, and full traceability through the AgentCore console. It launches with x402 protocol support and integrates with Coinbase's x402 Bazaar MCP server so agents can discover paid services independently. Available in US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), Europe (Frankfurt), and Asia Pacific (Sydney).
AWS Machine Learning BlogStripe launched the Link Agent Wallet, giving AI shopping agents access to Link's 200M+ consumer base via one-time-use cards or Shared Payment Tokens (SPTs) backed by users' existing wallet cards and bank accounts. Built on top of Stripe Issuing for Agents, the wallet routes spend requests to consumers for review and approval through the web and new Link iOS/Android apps. Future support is planned for agentic tokens, stablecoins, and additional payment types, with full Issuing APIs available for businesses building custom agentic wallets.
Stripe BlogGoogle transferred ownership of the Agent Payments Protocol (AP2) to the FIDO Alliance for community governance and shipped AP2 v0.2 on GitHub. The release adds Human Not Present payment support for autonomous transactions like time-sensitive ticket purchases that a user has pre-authorized.
Google BlogThe FIDO Alliance launched two technical working groups to develop interoperable standards for AI agent authentication and agent-initiated commerce, drawing on Google's AP2 and Mastercard's Verifiable Intent contributions. The Agentic Authentication Technical Working Group is chaired by CVS Health, Google, and OpenAI, with vice chairs from Amazon and Okta.
FIDO AllianceCloudflare rebranded its Browser Rendering product to Browser Run and added native WebMCP support, letting AI agents discover and call website tools declared via the Chrome WebMCP API. The release ships with an experimental Chrome beta pool so agent developers can prototype WebMCP flows before the API reaches stable.
CloudflareAmerican Express launched Agentic Commerce Experiences (ACE), a proprietary developer framework for trusted AI agent transactions. ACE delivers five integrated services spanning agent registration, account enablement, intent intelligence, payment credentials, and cart context, backed by the industry-first Amex Agent Purchase Protection that covers Card Members against registered-agent errors. Launch partners: Adyen, Fiserv, Forter, Global Payments, PayPal, and Stripe; flagship merchants: Delta Air Lines, Expedia, and Hilton.
American ExpressVisa committed to operating an anchor validator on Tempo, the Stripe-backed blockchain that hosts the Machine Payments Protocol (MPP). Zodia Custody joined as a second validator, hardening the network Stripe and Tempo positioned on March 18 as the settlement layer for agent-initiated payments.
VisaThe Agent2Agent (A2A) Protocol, now a Linux Foundation project, announced 150+ supporting organizations at its one-year mark — up from ~50 in April 2025. New backers include AWS, Cisco, IBM, Microsoft, Salesforce, SAP and ServiceNow. The repo crossed 22,000 GitHub stars and the SDK expanded to five languages with production deployments in finance, supply chain and insurance.
Linux FoundationThe Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP) maintainers shipped spec v2026-04-08 with three breaking changes, including moving signing_keys from nested ucp.signing_keys to the document root. The release formally adds A2A as a transport and separates business-profile manifests (/.well-known/ucp) from platform-profile manifests with distinct field requirements.
Google for DevelopersPerplexity asked the Ninth Circuit to vacate a March 10 preliminary injunction (N.D. Cal. 3:25-cv-09514) that bars its Comet AI shopping agent from accessing Amazon.com. Amazon successfully argued Comet violated the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act — the first major U.S. court decision setting precedent on agent-access rights.
CourtListenerMastercard completed its first live authenticated agentic transaction in Hong Kong through a partnership with HSBC and DBS Hong Kong. An AI agent via CardInfoLink booked a Hong Kong airport ride through mobility provider hoppa, using Mastercard Payment Passkey-authenticated tokens. Mastercard also announced a regional AI Centre of Excellence in Singapore.
Mastercard NewsroomRamp renewed its multi-year Visa issuing agreement and deepened technical integration around Visa Intelligent Commerce and the Trusted Agent Protocol. The companies will deploy AI agents to automate corporate bill pay across Ramp's 50,000+ customers, aiming to reduce manual AP work and give enterprises finer-grained control over agent-initiated spend.
VisaStripe partnered with Meta to enable one-click purchasing inside Facebook ads — when users tap 'Buy now' on an ad, a native checkout powered by Stripe appears using saved credentials from Meta Wallet. The experience underpins the Agentic Commerce Protocol and is positioned within Stripe's Agentic Commerce Suite. Fanatics and Quince are early adopters; Instagram ads expansion is planned.
Stripe NewsroomOpenAI shifts ChatGPT shopping from Instant Checkout to ACP-powered product discovery. Walmart launched an in-ChatGPT app with account linking, loyalty, and Walmart Payments. Shopify connected millions of merchants. Visual browsing, side-by-side comparison, and conversational refinement now live for all ChatGPT users.
OpenAI BlogShopify launches Agentic Storefronts giving merchants out-of-the-box access to ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, Google AI Mode, and Gemini. New Agentic Plan lets non-Shopify brands add products to Shopify Catalog to sell across AI channels. Orders flow into admin with referral attribution.
Shopify NewsroomGap Inc. became the first major fashion company to deploy native Gemini checkout, powered by Google's Universal Commerce Protocol, across Gap, Old Navy, Banana Republic and Athleta. Shoppers browse, get styling recommendations and check out without leaving Gemini, initially paying via Google Pay. Gap also joined as early partner of Bold Metrics' new Agentic Sizing Protocol (ASP).
Gap Inc.Google published major UCP capability updates co-developed with community partners. New optional capabilities include Cart (agents save multiple items from a single store at once), Catalog (agents retrieve real-time pricing, inventory, and variant data), and Identity Linking (shoppers receive loyalty/member pricing benefits on UCP-integrated platforms). Google is also rolling out simplified UCP onboarding via Merchant Center. Commerce Inc, Salesforce, and Stripe will implement UCP on their platforms in the near future.
Google BlogStripe and Tempo (a payments blockchain co-developed by Stripe and Paradigm) launched the Machine Payments Protocol (MPP), an open standard enabling AI agents to pay for services autonomously machine-to-machine. Visa is extending MPP to support card-based payments on its global network via the Visa Acceptance Platform. The Visa CLI also bridges MPP and Coinbase x402, positioning it as a cross-standard connector across emerging agentic payment rails.
StripeVisa announced its CLI supports both Stripe and Tempo's Machine Payments Protocol (MPP) and Coinbase's x402 protocol, positioning Visa as a cross-standard connector between traditional card rails and emerging crypto-native agent payment standards. The move signals that incumbent payment networks are treating autonomous agent payment protocols as legitimate infrastructure rather than fringe experiments.
VisaWizard, the first AI agent purpose-built for ecommerce, announced a partnership with Stripe to accelerate ACP adoption. Wizard joins Stripe's group of early ACP partners helping retailers turn AI-driven discovery into incremental sales while maintaining control of brand, catalog, fulfillment, and customer relationships.
Business Wire - WizardThe Northern District of California (3:25-cv-09514, Judge Chesney) issued a preliminary injunction barring Perplexity's Comet shopping agent from accessing Amazon.com, ruling Amazon was likely to succeed on Computer Fraud and Abuse Act claims. The ruling is the first major U.S. judicial decision on whether retailers can legally block third-party AI shopping agents and triggered Perplexity's April 1 appeal to the Ninth Circuit.
CourtListenerThe greatest hits of agentic commerce — a curated, all-time view spanning protocol launches, payment breakthroughs, and landmark deployments
Google unveiled Universal Cart — a cross-merchant AI shopping cart that works across Search, the Gemini app, YouTube and Gmail with background deal-finding, price-history and back-in-stock alerts. UCP-powered checkout launches with Nike, Sephora, Target, Ulta, Walmart, Wayfair and Shopify merchants including Fenty and Steve Madden, with international rollout to Canada and Australia in the coming months and the UK to follow. UCP also extends to YouTube in the US and to hotel and local food-delivery verticals.
View sourceStripe brings agent payment capability to Link's 200M+ consumer base — agents pay via one-time-use cards or Shared Payment Tokens, with consumers approving spend in the web app or new Link iOS/Android apps. Built on Stripe Issuing for Agents, with future support planned for stablecoins and agentic tokens. The first agent wallet at consumer-network scale.
View sourceGoogle transfers ownership of the Agent Payments Protocol to the FIDO Alliance for community governance — a foundational shift parallel to A2A's move to the Linux Foundation. Ships AP2 v0.2 with Human-Not-Present payment support for autonomous, pre-authorized transactions.
View sourceFirst time a major standards body owns agentic-commerce auth. The Agentic Authentication Technical Working Group is chaired by CVS Health, Google, and OpenAI (with vice chairs from Amazon and Okta), drawing on Google's AP2 and Mastercard's Verifiable Intent contributions.
View sourceAmex launches Agentic Commerce Experiences (ACE) — a proprietary framework for trusted AI agent transactions backed by the first-ever consumer protection program for agentic commerce. Launch partners include Adyen, Fiserv, Forter, Global Payments, PayPal and Stripe, with Delta, Expedia and Hilton as flagship merchants.
View sourceOpenAI pivots from Instant Checkout to ACP-powered product discovery with Walmart, Target, Sephora, Nordstrom, Best Buy, Lowe's and Wayfair. Shopify simultaneously launches Agentic Storefronts, extending millions of merchants to ChatGPT, Copilot, Gemini and Google AI Mode.
View sourceOpen standard for autonomous AI agent payments, with Tempo mainnet as the settlement layer. Visa extends MPP to card-based payments via the Visa Acceptance Platform, and the Visa CLI bridges MPP with Coinbase x402.
View sourceOpen, standards-based cryptographic framework creating tamper-resistant authorization records for AI agent transactions using Selective Disclosure. Designed to interoperate with AP2 and ACP.
View sourceFirst browser-native way for websites to expose structured tools to AI agents. Co-developed with Microsoft and incubated at W3C, WebMCP introduces the navigator.modelContext API with declarative and imperative modes.
View sourceAmazon's Ads MCP Server launches in open beta at IAB ALM — AI agents including Claude, ChatGPT and Gemini can create campaigns, run reports and manage accounts via natural language. The largest real-world MCP deployment in the commerce ecosystem to date.
View sourceGoogle's answer to ACP launches with co-developers Shopify, Etsy, Wayfair, Target and Walmart, plus 20+ endorsing partners including Adyen, Amex, Best Buy, Mastercard, Stripe, The Home Depot and Visa.
View sourceVisa and partners mark a milestone — agentic commerce moves from lab to live commercial use across real merchants.
View sourceCross-vendor consolidation moment — Google formally backs Anthropic's Model Context Protocol across its services, joining OpenAI and Microsoft as first-class MCP supporters.
View sourcePayPal enables merchants to be discoverable within Perplexity with checkout in-chat — agentic commerce reaches mainstream consumers.
View sourceBain Consumer Lab survey finds generative AI has already fundamentally changed how Americans discover and evaluate products before buying.
View sourceFirst open standard for agentic commerce transactions — kicks off the protocol arms race that defines the category, with Etsy going live as the inaugural merchant partner.
View sourceFoundational payment protocol for agent-initiated transactions, using cryptographically-signed Mandates as verifiable-credential proofs of user intent across cards, stablecoins and real-time bank transfers.
View sourceFirst open standard for agent-to-agent interoperability. Later donated to the Linux Foundation, A2A becomes the backbone for multi-agent workflows across 150+ supporting organizations.
View sourceMCP becomes the universal connector between AI agents and external tools. Now backed by OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, and every major AI platform — the single most-adopted agent protocol to date.
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