Living definition
What is Google Agent Payments Protocol (AP2)?
Digital Payments & Real-Time Rails Agentic Commerce & Payments
- As of
- 2026-07-23
- Revision
- 2026-07-26.1
- 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 2026-07-23, 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
- 2026-07-26.1
- Hash
- sha256:a5b861157968f418e08e6a08da71c7cfd4c6b23c3955d9d77ad5bcf67b9e2482
- Approved
- 2026-07-26