Living definition
What is Trusted Agent Protocol (TAP)?
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
Trusted Agent Protocol (TAP) is a proposed protocol, associated with Visa, that lets a merchant or card network cryptographically verify that an incoming request originates from a recognized, authorized AI shopping agent.
Live readiness status
Status as of the current dateline
AI-assisted assembly · derived results
As of 2026-07-19, verified readiness is 55 (claimed 68, reported 63, gap 13) — Critical evidence strength; current signals suggest Adopt with guardrails.
The readiness fact belongs to the canonical Readiness Verdict for Trusted Agent Protocol (TAP).
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