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A working draft of an open extension to the Google Merchant Center feed format that declares per-product agent purchase terms: whether the agent is permitted to buy each item, which payment protocols the merchant accepts for it, whether it's mandate-eligible, what may substitute for it. OpenAI's ACP covers selection, Feedonomics ACE covers syndication. AOCF fills the per-product purchase-permission layer neither covers. Published openly under CC BY 4.0.

Aidō Lighthouse joined the Basis Theory Agentic Commerce Consortium. The whitepaper's market problems map directly to what the platform sees in its e-commerce readiness scans: trust, identity, and payment infrastructure for autonomous agents are unsolved at the merchant layer.

The 2026 AI Commerce Readiness Index — covering 345+ retailers across ten categories — finds that only 2% of ecommerce sites can support autonomous AI transactions end-to-end. 30% of sites score zero on transactability: no cart API, no machine-navigable checkout, no path for an agent to act.