Agent & Tool Protocols for Agentic Commerce
Emerging standards for how shopping agents discover products and complete checkout on a customer's behalf.
A genuine standards race is underway for how third-party shopping agents should be allowed to browse, compare and check out on a retailer's site — early movers risk losing visibility to agents that cannot parse their storefront.
Signals behind this placement
- —Competing proposals are emerging for how third-party agents browse, compare and check out on a retailer's site.
- —Storefronts that agents cannot parse risk losing visibility in agent-mediated discovery.
Sequencing
Builds on Non-Human Identity for Commerce APIs, Composable Commerce Platforms
Agent & Tool Protocols across other industries
Emerging standards for how agents discover tools, call them and talk to each other.
Agent & Tool Protocols (MCP, A2A)
Emerging standards for how agents discover and call tools, and talk to each other.
Agent & Tool Protocols for Health Data Access
Emerging standards for how clinical agents discover and call health-data tools safely.
Agent & Tool Protocols for Open Banking
Emerging standards for how financial agents discover and call open-banking APIs safely.
Agent & Tool Protocols for Machine-to-Machine Coordination
Emerging standards for how agents and machines discover and call each other's capabilities.
From the Retail & Consumer Emerging Technology & Innovation Radar, Edition 2026.1, published 2026-10-01.
An independent, industry-agnostic radar curated by Shailesh Kumar.