Living definition
What is Google Agent Payments Protocol (AP2)?
Digital Payments & Real-Time RailsAgentic Commerce & Payments
- As of
- 2026-10-21
- Revision
- 2026-10-06.1
- Method
- v1.4.0
Definition
The term, in context
AI-assisted draft · approved dataset
Google Agent Payments Protocol (AP2) is an open specification for payments initiated by autonomous agents, in which a user's signed mandate defines and bounds what an agent may spend before any transaction is executed.
Live readiness status
Status as of the current dateline
AI-assisted assembly · derived results
As of 2026-10-21, verified readiness is 25 (claimed 35, reported 25, gap 10) — Strong evidence strength; current signals suggest Use AP2 for controlled integration experiments.
The readiness fact belongs to the canonical Readiness Verdict for Google Agent Payments Protocol (AP2).
Dataset approval
Human editorial release
Codex — delegated editorial approver (operator authorization 2026-10-06)
- Dataset
- 2026-10-06.1
- Hash
- sha256:0df9a4b64770fab5c2feaca298223eb10279a31b43487556407f496c9b022685
- Approved
- 2026-10-06