Research, guides and ecosystem updates
Original research on UCP adoption, the State of Agentic Commerce report, guides for each store platform, and the latest spec changes, written for developers and platform teams building for agentic commerce.
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UCP Local Services Council Approved: What Happens Next for Bookings
The UCP Governing Council approved the charter for a Local Services council on 4 November 2026. How it got here, how members are chosen, and what it means for booking platforms.
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UCP adoption, store platform moves and what changed in the spec, from our own data.
UCP Playground Now Runs Personal Agents with Anthropic's Shopping Skills
UCP Playground can now run open-source personal agents, Goose or Hermes, each on its own machine with Anthropic's shopping skills, reaching the store only over UCP. Set the agent's memory, instructions and skills, and read what changed in its files after every run.
· 12 min read
How the Personal Agent Protocol and UCP Fit Together
PAP's new ucp extension splits the work: PAP finds the store and signs the person in, UCP handles the shopping and the payment. What draft 0.3 says, where Ask fits, and the three sites that already publish both.
· 9 min read
UCP for B2B: An Agent Buys on Net 30 Terms, Step by Step
UCP's 2026-08-25 release already covers business accounts and pay-later terms. We sent an agent to a wholesale test store: list prices and a refusal signed out, then trade prices and a Net 30 order once the account was linked, over MCP and A2A.
· 12 min read
How UCP's Ask Works: Questions Before and After a Purchase, Step by Step
UCP's Ask capability lets an agent ask a store a question and get the store's own answer. We followed one shopper on our test store: a question about a shop, a checkout that disagreed, and questions about the order after paying.
· 10 min read
The Wix UCP Guide: How Wix Stores Work With AI Shopping Agents
Every Wix store we check publishes a UCP profile without any setup. What it declares, what an AI agent can actually do with a Wix store today, and how to check yours step by step in UCP Checker and UCP Playground.
· 10 min read
How UCP’s Embedded Transport Works: The Store’s Checkout, Step by Step
UCP’s Embedded transport lets an app open a store’s own checkout page and talk to it while the buyer pays. We built both sides and followed one real order: the profile, the checkout binding, the handshake, the payment credential and ec.complete.
· 12 min read
How UCP over A2A Works: Checkout With a Store’s Agent, Step by Step
UCP has had an A2A binding since its first release. We built both sides and followed one real order through it: the profile points to the store's agent card, then three A2A messages take a bouquet from create to paid.
· 9 min read
UCP Food Ordering: Test a Pickup Order End to End
Follow one pickup order through a test noodle shop, call by call: search, a dish and its add-on, the buyer, a pickup shop and time, every totals line, a test payment and the order. What UCP 2026-08-25 already covers, and what the food proposals would add.
· 12 min read
/.well-known/ucp is now in the IANA registry
On 26 October 2026, IANA added ucp to its Well-Known URIs registry. The path every UCP store uses for its profile is now a reserved name, with status provisional. What the entry says, how it got there, and what it means for stores and agents.
· 7 min read