{
  "dataset": "glossary",
  "record": {
    "id": "agentic-commerce",
    "term": "Agentic Commerce",
    "category": "commerce",
    "short_def": "Transactions initiated and completed by AI agents on a user's behalf, through protocols like x402, AP2 and the Agentic Commerce Protocol.",
    "long_def": "Spans micropayments for data and tools (x402), mandate-based settlement across rails (AP2) and in-conversation checkout (ACP / Instant Checkout). The shared challenge is authorization: proving the agent had the user's permission to spend.",
    "see_also": [
      "x402",
      "agent-identity"
    ],
    "etymology_origin": {
      "value": null,
      "verify_status": "verify-against-primary-at-build",
      "source_hint": "https://www.coinbase.com/developer-platform/discover/launches/x402 — 'agentic commerce' is an umbrella category term popularised across 2025 launches (x402, AP2, ACP) with no single coiner"
    },
    "related_to": [
      "x402",
      "agent-identity",
      "a2a"
    ],
    "contrast_with": "Unlike e-commerce, where a human clicks checkout, agentic commerce has the AI agent transact on the user's behalf — shifting the hard problem from UX to verifiable authorization (did the agent have permission to spend?).",
    "example": "OpenAI and Stripe launched the Agentic Commerce Protocol with ChatGPT Instant Checkout on 29 September 2025, going live with Etsy on launch day.",
    "source": "https://openai.com/index/buy-it-in-chatgpt/",
    "status": "emerging",
    "why_it_matters": "Agentic commerce is the revenue side of the agentic web; a site that wants agents to buy from it must speak one of its authorization-plus-settlement protocols.",
    "sameAs": [],
    "bridge_entity": "protocols/payments/x402",
    "last_verified": "2026-06-15",
    "md_twin": "/glossary/agentic-commerce.md"
  }
}