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Living definition

What is Google Agent Payments Protocol (AP2)?

Digital Payments & Real-Time Rails Agentic Commerce & Payments

As of
2026-08-20
Revision
2026-08-17.1
Method
v1.3.0

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 2026-08-20, verified readiness is 44 (claimed 55, reported 50, gap 11) — Critical evidence strength; current signals suggest Proceed with caution.

The readiness fact belongs to the canonical Readiness Verdict for Google Agent Payments Protocol (AP2).

Dataset approval

Human editorial release

pragma.vision editorial — standing authorization (operator dev@soft.house, 2026-07-17)

Dataset
2026-08-17.1
Hash
sha256:0c37108a182f510fc8cf4d1dfc3a30339f2b59e62654201edea2f530a268707e
Approved
2026-08-17

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