An agent interface that answers product searches
R1.4Can an agent query the catalog through an agent interface?
- Why it matters
- This channel is built for AI agents. They ask and get exact answers instead of reading pages meant for people.
- What Lens looks for
- We looked for an interface built for AI agents, such as a UCP profile, and asked it for a priced product.
- Where it sits
- Catalog · Check 3 of 3
- Needed for
- No stage needs it. It counts toward its group.
- Builds on
- A product list AI agents can download R1.3
- Needed by
- Nothing
- Usually fixed by
- Developer · Weeks
What to do
Publish a UCP business profile with the catalog capability. Shopify stores have one by default.
Catalog
Can an agent find and read what is sold?
The definition
- Definition
- An agent interface answers a catalog query: a UCP catalog search or lookup on any binding, a platform's documented agent endpoint, an MCP or A2A interface whose commerce operations a published schema defines, or OpenAPI operations declaring
x-payment-info. - Passes when
- At least one agent interface answered a catalogue query with a product, or an OpenAPI document declares paid operations. A route in lists.routes listed for this rung, or for a higher rung of the same dimension, meets it; the result names the route.
- Decided by
- A rule
- Evidence
- The profile; every JSON-RPC request and response of the handshake; the listing or OpenAPI document
- Steps
- wellknown, ucp.handshake, payment
- Made as
- anon, ucp