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Connect Any Agent to Every Verified UCP Store: the MCP Server, the ARD Finder and Two Skills Are Live
One snippet and your agent gets check-domain, search-all and add-to-cart in its tool tray — backed by the verified list....
One Design System Across the Whole UCP Playground
Inspector, Agent, session replays, Conformance, the docs, the homepage — every surface of the Playground now shares one...
UCP for Lodging Just Got a Technical Council. Here's Who's On It — and What They Have to Build.
The UCP Lodging Technical Council is now seated — Amadeus, Booking.com, Expedia, Google, Hilton, Marriott and Trip.com....
Past "Add to Cart": UCP's Payment Layer Learns 3DS Challenges and Negotiated Terms
In one week UCP shipped two of the hardest parts of a real checkout — payment authentication (3DS/device-data challenges...
Which AI Models Can Actually Complete a Checkout? The Benchmark Just Refreshed to the Frontier
UCP Playground's agentic-checkout leaderboard now spans 20 models across 8 providers — Claude Opus 5, Grok 4.5, Kimi K3,...
UCP Security, Measured: What the Trust Layer Looks Like Across the Fleet
A payment protocol is a promise that money moves correctly between strangers — only as good as its trust layer. UCP's is...
UCP Payment Extensions Go Global: Mercado Pago Brings Pix, Boleto, and the First Real-World Actions
Four days after the Actions primitive merged, Latin America's largest payment processor used it to propose Pix QR displa...
UCP Extensions Can Now Do Things: the Actions Primitive Merged — and Extension Trust Just Got Urgent
The Actions primitive (#582) merged on July 23: a response-only shape that lets extensions hand agents outstanding work...
Nominations Open for the UCP Payments Tech Council — the Money Layer Gets Its Own Governance
The Governing Council approved the Payments TC charter and opened founding-cohort nominations until July 28. The protoco...
UCP for Restaurants: An Operator’s Guide to Agentic Ordering
UCP is not a delivery app. It is a new agent-facing ordering funnel that runs on top of your existing POS and ordering s...
Introducing UCP Monitoring: Status, Uptime, Score & Alerts in One Dashboard
UCP monitoring, finally in one place. The new dashboard at app.ucpchecker.com watches your business the way agents see i...
UCP Authority Binding: Proving an Extension Belongs to Who It Claims
How does an agent know a UCP extension is really from who it claims? Authority binding makes provenance checkable from t...
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