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Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP) is an open standard designed to unify how platforms, businesses, and payment providers interact across the modern commerce ecosystem. It provides a common language that eliminates fragmented, custom integrations and enables seamless interoperability between diverse commerce systems. Built for an increasingly agentic web, UCP supports AI-driven platforms that can discover products, manage carts, and complete transactions securely on a user’s behalf. ...

UCP Python SDK repository for the Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP) delivers an official Python client library that simplifies building UCP-compliant applications in Python. UCP itself is a modern, open-source standard that empowers seamless commerce interactions between platforms, AI agents, merchants, and payment providers without requiring bespoke integrations for every participant in the commerce ecosystem.

AP2 is a project released by Google’s “Agentic Commerce” initiative, focusing on a protocol and reference implementation for agent-driven or AI-mediated payments. In effect, AP2 aims to define a secure, interoperable protocol that allows software agents to act on behalf of users—making payments or shopping decisions autonomously—while preserving necessary security, auditability, and trust.