Agentic Commerce 101.

AI can now discover products, build carts, prove you authorised payments, and pay — all on your behalf. Here's how each protocol works, in plain English, and in code.

● Discovery

How a query becomes shopping

How the AI knows which shops to even ask. The catalog feeds and registries that route your query before any protocol runs.

● Tooling

How agents find tools

The shared language between an AI and any app it uses.

● Commerce

How they shop

How an AI finds stores, browses, builds a cart, and checks out.

● Trust

Who's allowed to act

How shops know the AI is allowed to spend — and who's liable when it does.

● Payment

How money moves

The new rails — none of them are the credit card alone.

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