How Agent Commerce Protocol appears in this material ## Agent Commerce Protocol in this channel's materialAgent Commerce Protocol appears as one piece of Stripe's infrastructure for agentic commerce — payments systems being rebuilt now that agents, not only people, act on the internet. Emily Glassberg Sands, Stripe's Head of Data and AI, frames the backdrop: the internet assumed a person is the main actor, and agents are now a new class of internet actor, forcing every layer of the stack — discovery, payments, identity, fraud — to be rethought. [^90e39a1e-87e8-5b3f-b9f2-f003e83fd62b@96] [moment: 2760][^90e39a1e-87e8-5b3f-b9f2-f003e83fd62b@2760]Alongside the protocol, she describes shared payment tokens that pass credentials merchant-ward so the agent never sees them, and Stripe's Link wallet, which lets consumers decide which agents may request credentials and under what limits. [^90e39a1e-87e8-5b3f-b9f2-f003e83fd62b@2760] [^90e39a1e-87e8-5b3f-b9f2-f003e83fd62b@3139] Why it fits the agentic-commerce picture ## Where it sitsThe protocol belongs with the broader shift the material explores: fraud moving to compute theft at sign-up, and interaction moving from synchronous prompting to asynchronous delegation. In that world, agents need a defined, guarded way to transact — which is the gap Agent Commerce Protocol addresses. [moment: 3139][^90e39a1e-87e8-5b3f-b9f2-f003e83fd62b@3139] - Agent Commerce Protocol is Stripe's infrastructure piece for agentic commerce, co-created with OpenAI. [^90e39a1e-87e8-5b3f-b9f2-f003e83fd62b@2760]- It exists because agents are a new class of internet actor, and the payment stack was designed assuming human actors. [^90e39a1e-87e8-5b3f-b9f2-f003e83fd62b@96]- It pairs with shared payment tokens and the Link wallet, keeping credentials away from agents and under consumer control. [^90e39a1e-87e8-5b3f-b9f2-f003e83fd62b@3139]