Living definition
What is Trusted Agent Protocol (TAP)?
Agent Payment Protocols 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
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 2026-08-20, 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
- 2026-08-17.1
- Hash
- sha256:0c37108a182f510fc8cf4d1dfc3a30339f2b59e62654201edea2f530a268707e
- Approved
- 2026-08-17