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Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP)

Validate UCP agent-checkout discovery and lifecycle (Google · Shopify).

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Live in the gateway today.

What it answers

Can it pay?

Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP) sits in the commerce plane of the agent-interop stack. Can it pay? AxioRank tracks it as one row in a coverage matrix that spans six planes, from discovery and identity to authorization, content permission, and commerce.

Plane

Commerce

Status

live

Direction

outbound

How AxioRank handles it

Governed, not just listed.

Live in the gateway today. Outbound: when the agents you run reach out to other agents and services.

Read the Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP) specification

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AP2 Payments

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Preflight an L402 payment challenge. Check the Lightning invoice (network, amount) and macaroon before an agent pays.

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All protocols

The full coverage matrix across six planes.

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Govern the whole agent stack

AxioRank verifies identities and capabilities across the agent ecosystem, from discovery to commerce. See the full coverage matrix, machine-readable.

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