Agentic Commerce
Transactions initiated and completed by AI agents on a user's behalf, through protocols like x402, AP2 and the Agentic Commerce Protocol.
- 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
x402agent-identity- etymology_origin
- — verify-against-primary-at-build ↗ 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
x402agent-identitya2a- 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