Developing an open standard for agentic commerce
The post describes the ACP open standard for agentic commerce, enabling programmatic checkout flows between buyers, AI agents, businesses, and payment providers. It explains that ACP can connect with any commerce backend and payments infrastructure, avoiding custom integrations for each AI agent. It covers the transaction workflow, including saving or adding payment credentials, issuing secure tokens for credential sharing, responding to fraud signals, and establishing the merchant of record. The design supports multiple commerce types (physical, digital, subscriptions) and flows such as multi-merchant carts and asynchronous purchases, with emphasis on security and trust. It provides guidance to get started via the ACP specification and related docs, and notes the open-source Apache 2.0 license and compatibility with any payment provider.