About The Registry

The Registry is the neutral reference point for the emerging agentic commerce ecosystem.

As AI agents start to search, compare, and transact on behalf of people and businesses, an entire stack of open protocols and frameworks is rapidly taking shape — from MCP, AGENTS.md, and goose under the Linux Foundation’s Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF), to commerce-focused protocols like ACK, AP2, ACP, and others.

The Registry exists to help merchants, platforms, infrastructure providers, and regulators make sense of this standards landscape in plain language — and to measure how “agent-ready” they really are.

We don’t create protocols.
We track them, explain them, and benchmark their adoption.

Why The Registry Exists

Most of today’s commerce stack was built for human-only interactions:

• Product data optimized for SEO and ad platforms, not AI agents
• Proprietary APIs and one-off integrations instead of shared standards
• No consistent way to answer, “How ready are we for agentic buyers and their tools?”

Meanwhile, the agentic stack is maturing fast:

• MCP connects AI models to tools, data, and applications
• AGENTS.md gives coding agents consistent project guidance
• goose provides a local-first agent framework built on MCP
• ACK, AP2, ACP, and others are defining new patterns for agentic commerce and payments

That’s powerful — but also confusing for decision-makers who aren’t going to read every GitHub repo or spec.

The Registry’s job is to:

• Translate this into clear, neutral explanations
• Track who is actually shipping what in real commerce environments
• Turn it into readiness benchmarks that executives and regulators can act on

What The Registry Covers

The Registry is organized into a set of pillars that map the agentic stack to real-world commerce concerns:

• Standards & Protocols
  Neutral snapshots of key protocols and frameworks (e.g., MCP, AGENTS.md, goose, ACK, AP2, ACP, and others) — who maintains them, what problems they solve, and where they show up in commerce.
• Agentic Readiness & ACRI™
  The Agentic Commerce Readiness Index (ACRI™) provides a structured way to benchmark how prepared a merchant, marketplace, or platform is to be understood and transacted by AI agents — including dimensions like protocol integration (MCP, ACK, AP2, ACP), developer readiness (AGENTS.md usage), data quality, governance, and more.
• Merchant & Platform Playbooks
  Practical guides that help teams upgrade feeds, APIs, flows, and policies to support agents — with concrete checklists instead of vague “AI-enabled” claims.
• Platforms & Alliances
  Overviews of platforms, marketplaces, PSPs, infra providers, and alliances participating in the agentic ecosystem — and how they line up against emerging standards.
• Data, Signals & Feeds
  Focused on the raw material agents consume: product feeds, inventory, pricing, availability, events, and telemetry, and how they are exposed in a protocol-friendly way.
• Security, Trust & Governance
  Identity, permissions, fraud controls, policy, and oversight models needed to keep agentic commerce safe and compliant.
• Case Studies & Field Notes
  Evidence from the field: pilots, production deployments, and honest retrospectives on what worked, what broke, and what changed.
• Perspectives & Futures
  Forward-looking analysis on where the agentic economy is heading and what it will demand of the underlying commerce stack.

What The Registry Does Not Do

To be explicit:

• The Registry does not define or own protocols like ACK, AP2, ACP, MCP, AGENTS.md, or goose.
• We always attribute specifications and governance to their authors and foundations.
• We do not fork, compete with, or “rebrand” technical work done by others.

Instead, The Registry provides a commerce-facing view of these standards:

• How they fit together in a real-world stack
• What they mean for merchants, platforms, and infrastructure providers
• How they impact readiness, risk, and opportunity

Think of The Registry as the map and the scoreboard, not the rulebook.

Who The Registry Is For

The Registry is designed for people who have to make consequential decisions about agentic commerce, without becoming protocol lawyers:

• Merchants & brands
  Trying to understand what “agent-ready” actually means for their catalogs, checkout, and policies.
• Marketplaces & platforms
  Coordinating multi-tenant ecosystems who need shared readiness and interoperability baselines.
• Payments, logistics & infra providers
  Building the rails agents will use to move money, goods, and data.
• Alliances, standards bodies, and open source projects
  Looking for a neutral, commerce-centric place where their work is described, compared, and contextualized.
• Policymakers & regulators
  Who need a grounded, non-hyped view of how these standards operate in practice.

Stewardship & Independence

The Registry is intended to function as an independent, neutral reference for the agentic commerce ecosystem.

It was initiated and is currently underwritten by AgenticCommerce.com, which serves as the founding steward. The Registry itself is hosted at agenticcommerce.org and is explicitly designed to support the broader community of merchants, platforms, infrastructure providers, and standards projects — not just a single vendor.

Our commitments are:

• Neutrality
  We describe and compare standards using consistent criteria, regardless of vendor.
• Attribution
  We always point back to the canonical specs, repos, and foundations that author and govern each protocol.
• Practicality
  We focus on what matters for real deployments and regulatory understanding, not on hype.

Over time, the goal is to broaden stewardship to include additional ecosystem partners, standards bodies, and contributors, while preserving that neutrality and practicality.

How to Participate

We’re at the very beginning of mapping this space, and The Registry is deliberately being built with the ecosystem, not just for it.

You may want to engage if you:

• Operate a large merchant, marketplace, or platform
• Maintain or implement agentic protocols or frameworks (ACK, AP2, ACP, MCP, AGENTS.md, goose, and others)
• Provide critical infrastructure (payments, logistics, feeds, observability, identity, compliance)
• Represent a standards body, alliance, or regulator shaping how this space evolves

Join as a founding member

We are currently inviting a small set of organizations to participate as founding members and early advisors to The Registry — helping to shape:

• The evolution of ACRI™ and readiness benchmarks
• The initial standards & protocols matrix (including ACK, AP2, ACP, MCP, AGENTS.md, and related projects)
• The first wave of playbooks and case studies grounded in real implementations

To express interest or request a briefing, please email:

info@agenticcommerce.com

Include a short description of who you are, your role in the ecosystem, and how you see agentic commerce affecting your work over the next 12–24 months.

What’s Next

In the coming months, The Registry will focus on:

• Publishing the first public draft of the Agentic Commerce Readiness Index (ACRI™)
• Creating neutral, commerce-facing snapshots of key protocols and frameworks
• Mapping real-world implementations against those standards
• Releasing practical playbooks for merchants, marketplaces, and platforms

If you’d like to follow along, you can subscribe via the homepage or contact us at info@agenticcommerce.com to request an executive or technical briefing.