Standards for agents paying on a user’s behalf began to take shape, centred on three questions: who the agent represents, how much it may spend, and who is liable when something goes wrong. This is the precondition for agents taking part in commerce.
Key facts
- Addresses identity, limits and liability
- Payment and tech companies joined the effort
- Authorisation granularity and revocation are key
- A precondition for agent commercialisation
Big Share take
Payment standards are the watershed for agent monetisation. Without them an agent can only find information; with them it can actually finish the job. The technical difficulty is low, the trust difficulty is high.
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