Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP)

UCP standardises agent-driven commerce interactions.

Category
Commerce
Standard
Emerging checkEmerging
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What it checks

UCP aims to give agents one way to browse a catalogue, build a basket, and check out across different merchants.

The extension requests /.well-known/ucp.json and /.well-known/ucp, in that order, and passes on the first one that returns a non-empty JSON document.

Commerce protocols are new, and most sites have no reason to support them, so absence is N/A rather than a failure.

Results

Status When
Pass One of the paths returns a non-empty JSON document
N/A Nothing was found

How to fix

Publish a UCP descriptor at /.well-known/ucp.json to expose your commerce capabilities to agents. Serve it as JSON (Content-Type: application/json); the extension only confirms a JSON document is there and does not validate its contents.

These standards are still settling, so follow the protocol’s own documentation for what the descriptor should contain.