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Mandate schemas are versioned by a `vct` suffix, but CHANGELOG.md has two one-line entries and the site serves two contradictory spec versions (6 of 15)." }, { "key": "ergonomics", "name": "Agent ergonomics", "weight": 13, "effectiveWeight": 16.25, "score": 51, "points": 8.29, "reason": "Protocol reading. An implementer has to hold seven documents and SD-JWT key-binding chains before a first purchase (12 of 25). Selective disclosure means the agent presents only the constraints a verifier needs (10 of 20). Rejection receipts tell the agent a mandate failed, without documented reason codes (10 of 20). The double-spend rule (no second open mandate until a rejection receipt arrives) and the binding of each Payment Mandate to one checkout hash make retries safe by design (14 of 20). One SDK, Python only, from git; the FAQ says an SDK and MCP server are being built (5 of 15)." }, { "key": "security", "name": "Security \u0026 auth", "weight": 14, "effectiveWeight": 17.5, "score": 84, "points": 14.7, "reason": "User-signed SD-JWT mandates bound to the agent's key through `cnf`, a short `exp` recommended, and each closed mandate bound to a merchant-signed checkout by hash. We found no way to revoke an open mandate before it expires (24 of 30). Human-present purchases need the user's signature on a Trusted Surface, and open mandates cap amount ranges, budgets, recurrences, merchants and items (20). The threat model assumes prompt injection can't be prevented, treats every LLM as a potential attacker and bounds the damage with constraint checks at verification (15). Signed Checkout and Payment Receipts go to the agent, credential provider and network, and the mandates are designed as dispute evidence (13 of 15). SECURITY.md routes reports to Google's g.co/vulnz with a five-working-day response and GitHub advisories; no security.txt on ap2-protocol.org (12 of 20)." }, { "key": "payments", "name": "Payments \u0026 pricing", "weight": 10, "effectiveWeight": 12.5, "score": 60, "points": 7.5, "reason": "Protocol reading. Human-not-present mode lets an agent pay within user-signed open mandates without a person at the moment of purchase, and the repository has x402 samples for both modes, but a person must sign first and there is no live rail to pay on (20 of 40). The protocol defines no fees (20). Free to implement, nothing to buy (20). An agent can't obtain a mandate or a credential provider on its own (0)." }, { "key": "tasks", "name": "Task success", "weight": 10, "effectiveWeight": 0, "pending": true, "points": 0, "reason": "Pending. Task success needs the category task suites run through each tool, which haven't run yet, so this run doesn't score it. 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The Python SDK isn't on PyPI and no other language has one (3 of 15). `cryptography` is pinned at 46.0.5 with newer releases waiting in open PRs, and CI is lint only (3 of 10)." }, { "key": "transparency", "name": "Transparency \u0026 trust", "weight": 7, "effectiveWeight": 8.75, "score": 56, "points": 4.9, "note": "editorial 55, provenance 57", "reason": "Apache-2.0, all source public (30). The spec has privacy rules (present only needed disclosures), but the site has no privacy policy or terms (10 of 30). v0.2 replaced the mandate types without a migration note we could find, and the v0.1 page is still live with no notice on it (5 of 20). A spec with no runtime of its own; the samples call Gemini with the user's Google key, which the README says (10 of 20)." } ], "assessment": { "date": "2026-10-01", "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "notes": { "ergonomics": "Protocol reading. 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Neither the v0.2 release post nor the docs name a production deployment, and we found none elsewhere (0 of 25). v0.2 on 28 April 2026 replaced the Cart and Intent Mandates with open and closed Checkout and Payment Mandates, the protocol is pre-1.0, and ap2-protocol.org/specification/ still serves the v0.1 text while v0.2 lives at /ap2/specification/ (8 of 25). Nine unit-test files in the SDK, but CI runs only a linter on pull requests, and issue #265 proposing conformance vectors is still open (5 of 20).", "schema": "JSON Schemas for the six mandate and receipt types plus Pydantic models; AP2 has no HTTP API of its own, so there is no OpenAPI file to expect (20 of 25). Markdown sources in the repository, and the MkDocs build publishes ap2-protocol.org/llms.txt with ten links and an llms-full.txt (10). Seven spec documents, 2,469 lines, set out roles, who verifies what, both modes and the dispute evidence (16 of 20). 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Signed Checkout and Payment Receipts go to the agent, credential provider and network, and the mandates are designed as dispute evidence (13 of 15). SECURITY.md routes reports to Google's g.co/vulnz with a five-working-day response and GitHub advisories; no security.txt on ap2-protocol.org (12 of 20).", "transparency": "Apache-2.0, all source public (30). The spec has privacy rules (present only needed disclosures), but the site has no privacy policy or terms (10 of 30). v0.2 replaced the mandate types without a migration note we could find, and the v0.1 page is still live with no notice on it (5 of 20). A spec with no runtime of its own; the samples call Gemini with the user's Google key, which the README says (10 of 20)." }, "sources": [ { "what": "AP2 repository (spec docs, SDK, schemas, CI, CHANGELOG, SECURITY.md)", "url": "https://github.com/google-agentic-commerce/AP2", "seen": "2026-10-01" }, { "what": "open issues", "url": "https://github.com/google-agentic-commerce/AP2/issues", "seen": "2026-10-01" }, { "what": "v0.2 specification page", "url": "https://ap2-protocol.org/ap2/specification/", "seen": "2026-10-01" }, { "what": "old v0.1 specification page", "url": "https://ap2-protocol.org/specification/", "seen": "2026-10-01" }, { "what": "FIDO Alliance announcement", "url": "https://fidoalliance.org/fido-alliance-to-develop-standards-for-trusted-ai-agent-interactions/", "seen": "2026-10-01" }, { "what": "Google v0.2 release post", "url": "https://blog.google/products-and-platforms/platforms/google-pay/agent-payments-protocol-fido-alliance/", "seen": "2026-10-01" }, { "what": "llms.txt", "url": "https://ap2-protocol.org/llms.txt", "seen": "2026-10-01" } ], "openQuestions": [ "Whether any credential provider or network runs AP2 in production; we found no primary source", "Whether the FIDO working groups will publish the spec themselves and on what timeline", "Whether open mandates can be revoked before expiry; the v0.2 docs don't say", "unchecked: arxiv 2601.22569 and 2609.00060, carried over from the listing's details" ] }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "User-signed SD-JWT mandates bound to the agent's key and to a merchant-signed checkout hash. 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A person signs the mandate, and a credential provider has to exist, which as I read it an agent can't obtain on its own. Behind those, a real payment needs a merchant and a processor that implement AP2, and the research found no production deployment. The sample door is open. Clone the repository, install the SDK from git with uv (there's no PyPI package) and run a sample with a Google API key, which the README says the samples use for Gemini. The spend controls are built into the mandate, with amount range, total budget, recurrence, merchant and item limits and a short expiry recommended. Whether an open mandate can be revoked before it expires isn't documented. One. 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