The original title is "Agent-Ready Commerce, Part 1: Building a Platform for the AI Era"

Short summary

AI commerce platforms must expose commercial truth (pricing freshness, inventory freshness, policy coverage) explicitly to agents rather than asking them to infer from UI. Different agent actions require distinct eligibility checks—discovery, comparison, policy quoting, cart addition, checkout prep, and delegated payment each have different risk profiles. This action-based architecture makes agent integration more reliable and gives merchants better operational visibility into agent capabilities.

• •Agents need explicit commercial metadata, not UI interpretation; expose freshness, coverage, and state directly
• •Each agent action (discover, compare, checkout, payment) requires its own eligibility decision with specific blockers
• •Separation of concerns improves reliability for agents and operational transparency for merchants

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