Merchant & Platform Playbooks – Placeholder Landing Page

Status: Placeholder content. This page will be replaced with concrete, step-by-step playbooks as The Registry matures.

The Merchant & Platform Playbooks pillar is where The Registry will host practical, “do this next” guidance for teams that need to move from theory to implementation.

These future playbooks are intended for:

  • Merchants and brands upgrading catalogs, checkout, and policies for AI agents
  • Marketplaces and platforms coordinating multi-tenant ecosystems
  • Product, engineering, and data teams responsible for the actual integration work

Examples of future playbooks

Over time, this section is likely to contain articles such as:

  • “How to prepare your Shopify-style catalog for agentic discovery”
  • “Designing APIs and events that agents can safely consume”
  • “Rolling out ACP or other agentic commerce standards without breaking the current stack”
  • “Governance checklists for security, fraud and policy in agentic commerce”

Each playbook will combine:

  • A concise explanation of the problem
  • A concrete checklist of actions and decisions
  • Links back to relevant standards, protocols, and ACRI dimensions

Why this placeholder exists now

Right now, this page is doing a simple job:

  • Anchoring the merchant-platform-playbooks tag
  • Giving us somewhere to link from the homepage and navigation
  • Allowing internal testing of layouts, related posts, and tag combinations

Once real playbooks are ready, this placeholder will be replaced by a rich index of practical guides.

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