agentic-commerce
2 free lessons tagged agentic-commerce across Business. Each one is a short sequence of focused steps with narration and a five-question quiz at the end — take them in any order, no signup required.
Agentic Commerce: Trust, Liability, and What Breaks
Scoped tokens and signed mandates solve authorization, not everything. This lesson covers the unsettled parts: who is liable when an agent buys wrong, why merchants and agents have opposing incentives, prompt injection as a new attack surface at checkout, agent-to-agent buying, and why the market forecasts disagree by an order of magnitude.
Delegating Spending Authority to an Agent
How do you let software spend your money without handing it your card? This lesson covers the mechanism behind agentic checkout: scoped single-use credentials like the Shared Payment Token, Google's AP2 intent and cart mandates as signed verifiable credentials, agent identification, and the guardrails that bound what an agent may buy.