Teaching Agents to Pay: A Developer's Guide
summary
Live demo builds an agent-driven checkout that uses Stripe to create Shared Payment Tokens passed to merchants so money never flows through the agent, and it implements the Universal Commerce Protocol endpoints so one integration serves many agents. The demo shows a chatbot adding payment info and completing a purchase without redirect, claims a 12.3% conversion uplift when products are discoverable via AI, and explains machine-to-machine billing via the Machine Payment Protocol (402) with audit logs, least-privilege tokens, and recoverable failures.
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chapters (15)
- 0:00Agentic commerce intro
- 1:43AI for product discovery
- 3:49Agents in commerce
- 6:55Agent checkout demo
- 9:05Agentic system components
- 13:22Agent-ready checkouts
- 14:44Universal commerce protocol
- 17:12Agents paying sellers
- 20:44Machine-to-machine payments
- 22:51Pay-per-request with MPP
- 25:40Persona engineering
- 27:09Honest vs commission agents
- 29:56Product catalog prep
- 32:02Efficient product browsing
- 33:07Summary and future
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