ACRI™ – Agentic Commerce Readiness Index (Placeholder Overview)

Status: Placeholder content. This page will evolve into the primary reference for ACRI™ once the framework is finalized.

The Agentic Commerce Readiness Index (ACRI™) is The Registry’s scoring framework for answering a simple question:

“How prepared is this merchant, marketplace, or platform to be understood and transacted by AI agents?”

This placeholder page stands in for the future, fully-specified ACRI documentation.

What ACRI is intended to measure

When complete, ACRI is expected to cover dimensions such as:

• Standards & Protocols integration
  (e.g., use of open standards such as MCP, AGENTS.md, goose, ACP, ACK, AP2 and others)
• Data, signals, and feeds
  The quality and accessibility of product feeds, pricing, availability, and event streams.
• Developer readiness
  How well engineering teams expose APIs, documentation, and repo-level guidance for agents.
• Security, trust & governance
  Identity, permissions, fraud controls, oversight, and compliance for agent-driven flows.
• Operational maturity
  From early experiments to production-grade agentic experiences at scale.

How this placeholder will be replaced

Over time, this page will be updated to include:

• A clearly defined ACRI scoring model
• Guidance for self-assessment by merchants and platforms
• Examples of what “agent-ready” looks like at different ACRI tiers
• How ACRI scores map to the other pillars of The Registry

For now, this placeholder simply ensures that:

• The agentic-readiness-acri tag is wired correctly
• ACRI has a visible home in the Registry’s information architecture
• We can safely test layouts and navigation without implying that the scoring model is final