Builders and business teams
Agent-to-agent payments
How software participants can buy and sell work without a human completing each checkout.
Last reviewed 2026-07-20 · Optional, not assessed
Keep these distinctions
- ✓Autonomous demand needs machine-readable offers and settlement.
- ✓Discovery, identity, payment, and accountability remain separate concerns.
Autonomous exchange
A buying agent must be able to inspect an offer, authorize payment, receive a result, and decide what to do next. Separating those stages makes the interaction inspectable and lets services move across interfaces and marketplaces.
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