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Anthropic Published a Commerce Agent Blueprint Under Apache 2.0 and Deliberately Left Out the Wallet
On September 2, 2026 Anthropic released `anthropics/commerce-agents`, an Apache-2.0 reference blueprint pairing a shopping agent and a merchant agent with four runnable verticals: retail, travel, telecom and entertainment. Shopify and Priceline are already running live agents on it, and Visa and Mastercard are distributing the blueprint to their merchant networks, but the repo ships no payment protocol, no checkout and no ad layer. Anthropic's own numbers claim carts up to 35% larger and 60% higher purchase completion, unverified externally, and the company says it will not maintain the repo as a product or accept outside contributions.
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