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Verification register Agentic Commerce & Payments

Living definition

What is Mastercard Agent Pay (incl. Agent Pay for Machines)?

Agent Payment Protocols Agentic Commerce & Payments

As of
2026-07-19
Revision
2026-07-19.2
Method
v1.3.0

Definition

The term, in context

AI-assisted draft · approved dataset

Mastercard Agent Pay is a Mastercard program that provisions tokenized card credentials to AI shopping agents, letting an agent complete a purchase within limits a cardholder has set.

Live readiness status

Status as of the current dateline

AI-assisted assembly · derived results

As of 2026-07-19, verified readiness is 56 (claimed 70, reported 64, gap 14) — Strong evidence strength; current signals suggest Proceed with caution.

The readiness fact belongs to the canonical Readiness Verdict for Mastercard Agent Pay (incl. Agent Pay for Machines).

Dataset approval

Human editorial release

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

Dataset
2026-07-19.2
Hash
sha256:5b6f2a037b720dbb2ee4216d94ab16dcb623c06c65387010d64145dfda66d13d
Approved
2026-07-19

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