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Readiness verdict

Visa Trusted Agent Protocol (TAP)

A dated reading of what is claimed, reported, and independently verified in the current evidence.

As of
2026-06-28
Revision
1
Method
v1.0.0

Current reading

The readiness gap, in one scan

AI-assisted assembly · derived results

Claimed
70

Public ambition and stated capability

Reported
65

Observed practitioner reporting

Verified
59

Independently supported evidence

Gap
+11

Claimed minus verified

Evidence strength Strong

Decision

What the current evidence supports

Human editorial judgment · 2026-06-28

Proceed with caution

Why
Standards-aligned (RFC 9421, web-bot-auth), backed by 12 major processors and openly specced — a credible identity primitive — but it is verification-only, governance-centralized on Visa, and the ecosystem is still in closed beta/sandbox with baseline merchant adoption years out.
Next
Map TAP's RFC 9421 / Ed25519 agent-recognition signatures against our existing TAP-layer + hybrid-signature requirement (Rule #2); pilot verification against Visa's JWKS directory in the trust-authority sandbox before any checkout wiring.

Constraints

Blockers

No named blocker is present in the current public projection.

Evidence summary

Derived counts

AI-assisted assembly

Total
7
Tier 1
0
Tier 2
3
Tier 3
4
Supports
2
Contradicts
2
Context
3
Latest observed
2026-06-01

Counts and dates only. Raw signals, private excerpts, trust records, and internal corpus material are not published here.

Publication record

Revisions

Initial public reading

This is the initial public reading. No earlier readiness change is recorded.

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