INDEPENDENT MERCHANT INTELLIGENCEPUBLIC BETA / SEPTEMBER 2026 BASELINE
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Checkout in an agent-assisted journey

Treat a checkout as a changing agreement, not a buy-button screenshot.

Merchant answer / Evidence review pending

A proposed purchase includes exact items, quantities, fulfillment, taxes, discounts and terms. A commerce integration must account for changes while the shopper is deciding. Ask what happens when inventory changes, a delivery option becomes unavailable or a required customer choice is missing. A checkout link in HTML establishes only that a link exists.

What this establishes
A practical way to inspect evidence and make the next merchant decision.

What it cannot establish
An unresolved dependency remains. Treat affected claims as provisional. Live merchant deployment, private account eligibility, purchase completion or guaranteed AI selection.

Evidence dates and document versions remain attached to the ledger below. Editorial presentation reviewed 30 September 2026; this is not a new source verification.

The order has to be specific

A proposed purchase includes exact items, quantities, fulfillment, taxes, discounts and terms. A commerce integration must account for changes while the shopper is deciding. Ask what happens when inventory changes, a delivery option becomes unavailable or a required customer choice is missing. A checkout link in HTML establishes only that a link exists.

Keep responsibilities explicit

Identify the merchant of record and which service owns the checkout session, payment processing, fulfillment and support. A protocol can describe interactions while a platform decides what is enabled for an account. Compare the actual integration route and version rather than a generic protocol badge.

Test in the right environment

Use official sandboxes and approved merchant tools for transaction validation. The public L0 scanner deliberately does not visit cart or checkout endpoints, submit forms or attempt a purchase. Its result should direct you to the missing evidence, not imply that checkout passed.

Your next step

Evidence ledger

Go to the source.

Primary documentation records what is publicly stated. It does not independently prove outcomes or your account’s eligibility.

  • UCP overview, 2026-08-25

    UCP · official primary · Checked 2026-09-28

    Claim scope: Discovery profile and commerce capabilities

    Version-pinned profile discovery; declared capabilities do not prove successful transactions.

    Source ID: ucp-spec · Published: Not stated

  • ACP specification repository

    OpenAI / Stripe · official primary · Checked 2026-09-28

    Claim scope: Specification version and scope

    Latest stable shown as 2026-04-17; development branch is not a release.

    Source ID: acp-spec · Published: Not stated

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