{ "meta": { "attribution": "Anchor Terminal (https://www.anchorterminal.com)", "attributionRequired": true, "credit": "CC BY 4.0, credit Anchor Terminal and link the page or API address you took it from (https://www.anchorterminal.com/terms/#data)", "docs": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/docs/", "generatedAt": "2026-10-25", "license": "CC-BY-4.0", "method": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/benchmark/", "methodology": "0.6", "openapi": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/openapi.json", "preview": false, "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "terms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/terms/#data" }, "tool": { "slug": "walmart-agent-gateway", "name": "Walmart Agent Gateway", "vendor": "Walmart Inc.", "vendorUrl": "https://corporate.walmart.com/news/2026/10/Making-It-Possible-for-Agents-to-Shop-on-Behalf-of-Customers", "kind": "mcp", "category": "shopping", "summary": "Walmart Agent Gateway is Walmart's announced MCP interface for AI agents that shop Walmart and Sam's Club for a customer. Announced on 21 October 2026, it starts as a beta by request for companies and developers, with no public endpoint.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/walmart-agent-gateway", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/walmart-agent-gateway.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/walmart-agent-gateway.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/walmart-agent-gateway.json", "license": "Proprietary hosted service. Walmart's terms for AI agents are summarised in its announcement of 21 October 2026; no full terms document was found on a page we could read", "transports": [], "packages": [], "auth": "mixed", "authNotes": "No credential model is published. Walmart's post says the gateway begins with a beta for companies and developers, reached through a link to www.walmart.com/agents, which answered with a bot check and was not read. For Agent Profiles, announced for about November 2026, the post says Walmart creates a profile the first time an agent shops through the gateway and the customer links it by signing in to their Walmart account. Today, per the post, an agent shopping for a customer signs in with the customer's own account (https://corporate.walmart.com/news/2026/10/Making-It-Possible-for-Agents-to-Shop-on-Behalf-of-Customers).", "pricing": "free", "pricingNotes": "No charge to agent developers is named on any page we could read. The post says agents see the same prices a person sees on Walmart.com, with applicable discounts and fees shown before purchase. Terms of the beta were not read (checked 2026-10-25).", "priceSummary": "Free", "where": "local", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in Walmart's announcement of 21 October 2026, and no public endpoint to carry one. The post says agents don't receive payment-card information and can't add or change payment methods (checked 2026-10-25).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-25" }, "docsUrl": "https://corporate.walmart.com/news/2026/10/Making-It-Possible-for-Agents-to-Shop-on-Behalf-of-Customers", "capabilities": [ "shopping.orders", "shopping.search", "shopping.prices" ], "tags": [ "official", "hosted", "mcp", "closed-source", "beta", "early-access", "announced", "security-txt", "new" ], "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 8.3, "grade": "F", "agentReady": false, "rank": 1202, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1210, "categoryRank": 9, "methodology": "0.6", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 0, "maintenance": 0, "payments": 10, "reliability": 5, "schema": 0, "security": 10, "transparency": 49 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "breakdown": [ { "key": "reliability", "name": "Reliability", "weight": 16, "effectiveWeight": 20, "score": 5, "points": 1, "reason": "Read with the hosted lines, on what can be read today, which is Walmart's announcement of 21 October 2026. No status page for the gateway was found (0 of 20). With no page there is no readable incident history (5 of 30). No rate limits published (0 of 15). No 429, retry or idempotency guidance (0 of 15). No SLA (0 of 10). Walmart says it is building the gateway and starting with a beta for companies and developers, so not generally available (0 of 10). Total 5.", "checked": "2026-10-25" }, { "key": "performance", "name": "Performance", "weight": 10, "effectiveWeight": 0, "pending": true, "points": 0, "reason": "Pending. Latency is measured per call by our probes, which haven't run yet, so this run doesn't score it. Its weight is shared across the assessed categories until the first probe window closes." }, { "key": "schema", "name": "Schema \u0026 documentation", "weight": 13, "effectiveWeight": 16.25, "score": 0, "points": 0, "reason": "Every line needs a published contract or documentation, and none exists that we could read. No endpoint, tool list, JSON Schema or OpenAPI file (0 of 25). No llms.txt or Markdown docs for the gateway. The beta page at www.walmart.com/agents answered with a bot check and was not read (0 of 10). No tool descriptions (0 of 20), typed inputs (0 of 15), examples or error responses (0 of 15), versions or changelog (0 of 15). The post describes the product's purpose, which is not a tool description. Total 0.", "checked": "2026-10-25" }, { "key": "ergonomics", "name": "Agent ergonomics", "weight": 13, "effectiveWeight": 16.25, "score": 0, "points": 0, "reason": "Every line needs a tool list or documentation. With no published tools, context cost, pagination and output controls, errors, retries and annotations, and defaults or SDKs have nothing to score (0 on each line), the reading Claude Duet got on 24 October for an interface outside agents can't reach. Total 0.", "checked": "2026-10-25" }, { "key": "security", "name": "Security \u0026 auth", "weight": 14, "effectiveWeight": 17.5, "score": 10, "points": 1.75, "reason": "Graded on the interface an outside agent can call, the reading Claude Duet got. With no published endpoint or credential model, the credential, least-privilege, injection and audit lines score nothing (0 of 30, 0 of 20, 0 of 15, 0 of 15). Walmart's terms for agents (approval by default, no card data, no payment-method changes, least information, blocking) and the announced Agent Profile controls are in forReviewers, unverified. The security programme line doesn't need an interface. www.walmart.com/.well-known/security.txt points to a responsible disclosure policy with safe harbour, discretionary rewards and a submission form hosted by HackerOne, and has no Expires field. No certification was checked. The walmart-affiliate-api dossier gave the same record 10 (10 of 20). 0 + 0 + 0 + 0 + 10 = 10.", "checked": "2026-10-25" }, { "key": "payments", "name": "Payments \u0026 pricing", "weight": 10, "effectiveWeight": 12.5, "score": 10, "points": 1.25, "reason": "Read with the hosted rule. No x402, MPP or L402, and no endpoint to carry one (0 of 40). No charge to developers is named; the post says agents see Walmart.com prices with fees shown before purchase. Nothing says the gateway is free either, the Zillow in Claude reading (10 of 20). Access is a beta by request whose terms weren't read, so no free tier without a card can be shown (0 of 20). A company or developer has to request beta access and a customer has to sign in to Walmart, so no autonomous onboarding (0 of 20). 0 + 10 + 0 + 0 = 10.", "checked": "2026-10-25" }, { "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. Its weight is shared across the assessed categories until then. A data provider's data-quality score is published on its listing now and becomes half of this category when it's scored." }, { "key": "maintenance", "name": "Maintenance \u0026 community", "weight": 7, "effectiveWeight": 8.75, "score": 0, "points": 0, "reason": "Read as a closed service. No release, version, published API change or release note for the gateway was found. The announcement of 21 October 2026 is recorded but isn't a release, and the line would score once the gateway or Agent Profiles ship (0 of 30). No dated entries in the last 90 days (0 of 20). No changelog, developer forum or support channel for the gateway was found. The beta page was unread (0 of 15). No Walmart-owned entry in the official MCP registry on 25 October 2026, only third-party Walmart servers, and no SDK (0 of 15). No package, repository or CI (0 of 10). Total 0.", "checked": "2026-10-25" }, { "key": "transparency", "name": "Transparency \u0026 trust", "weight": 7, "effectiveWeight": 8.75, "score": 49, "points": 4.29, "note": "editorial 31, provenance 66", "reason": "The editorial half. Closed service. The terms for AI agents are seven rules summarised in the post with no full document found, and the walmart.com Terms of Use sat behind a bot check. The walmart-affiliate-api dossier gave 8 for dated, partly inconsistent terms (8 of 30). The post splits data handling between the agent's privacy policy and Walmart's Privacy Notice, says agents get only the information the task needs, and says the gateway will find usual items without sharing purchase history. The Privacy Notice (updated 20 August 2026) keeps data as long as necessary with no periods and doesn't mention agents. The statements agree, the 15 the affiliate dossier gave (15 of 30). No deprecation policy or dated notices (0 of 20). The Privacy Notice says data is usually stored in the United States and suppliers outside the country may be used, with no subprocessor list, the affiliate dossier's 8 (8 of 20). 8 + 15 + 0 + 8 = 31.", "checked": "2026-10-25" } ], "assessment": { "date": "2026-10-25", "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "notes": { "ergonomics": "Every line needs a tool list or documentation. With no published tools, context cost, pagination and output controls, errors, retries and annotations, and defaults or SDKs have nothing to score (0 on each line), the reading Claude Duet got on 24 October for an interface outside agents can't reach. Total 0.", "maintenance": "Read as a closed service. No release, version, published API change or release note for the gateway was found. The announcement of 21 October 2026 is recorded but isn't a release, and the line would score once the gateway or Agent Profiles ship (0 of 30). No dated entries in the last 90 days (0 of 20). No changelog, developer forum or support channel for the gateway was found. The beta page was unread (0 of 15). No Walmart-owned entry in the official MCP registry on 25 October 2026, only third-party Walmart servers, and no SDK (0 of 15). No package, repository or CI (0 of 10). Total 0.", "payments": "Read with the hosted rule. No x402, MPP or L402, and no endpoint to carry one (0 of 40). No charge to developers is named; the post says agents see Walmart.com prices with fees shown before purchase. Nothing says the gateway is free either, the Zillow in Claude reading (10 of 20). Access is a beta by request whose terms weren't read, so no free tier without a card can be shown (0 of 20). A company or developer has to request beta access and a customer has to sign in to Walmart, so no autonomous onboarding (0 of 20). 0 + 10 + 0 + 0 = 10.", "reliability": "Read with the hosted lines, on what can be read today, which is Walmart's announcement of 21 October 2026. No status page for the gateway was found (0 of 20). With no page there is no readable incident history (5 of 30). No rate limits published (0 of 15). No 429, retry or idempotency guidance (0 of 15). No SLA (0 of 10). Walmart says it is building the gateway and starting with a beta for companies and developers, so not generally available (0 of 10). Total 5.", "schema": "Every line needs a published contract or documentation, and none exists that we could read. No endpoint, tool list, JSON Schema or OpenAPI file (0 of 25). No llms.txt or Markdown docs for the gateway. The beta page at www.walmart.com/agents answered with a bot check and was not read (0 of 10). No tool descriptions (0 of 20), typed inputs (0 of 15), examples or error responses (0 of 15), versions or changelog (0 of 15). The post describes the product's purpose, which is not a tool description. Total 0.", "security": "Graded on the interface an outside agent can call, the reading Claude Duet got. With no published endpoint or credential model, the credential, least-privilege, injection and audit lines score nothing (0 of 30, 0 of 20, 0 of 15, 0 of 15). Walmart's terms for agents (approval by default, no card data, no payment-method changes, least information, blocking) and the announced Agent Profile controls are in forReviewers, unverified. The security programme line doesn't need an interface. www.walmart.com/.well-known/security.txt points to a responsible disclosure policy with safe harbour, discretionary rewards and a submission form hosted by HackerOne, and has no Expires field. No certification was checked. The walmart-affiliate-api dossier gave the same record 10 (10 of 20). 0 + 0 + 0 + 0 + 10 = 10.", "transparency": "The editorial half. Closed service. The terms for AI agents are seven rules summarised in the post with no full document found, and the walmart.com Terms of Use sat behind a bot check. The walmart-affiliate-api dossier gave 8 for dated, partly inconsistent terms (8 of 30). The post splits data handling between the agent's privacy policy and Walmart's Privacy Notice, says agents get only the information the task needs, and says the gateway will find usual items without sharing purchase history. The Privacy Notice (updated 20 August 2026) keeps data as long as necessary with no periods and doesn't mention agents. The statements agree, the 15 the affiliate dossier gave (15 of 30). No deprecation policy or dated notices (0 of 20). The Privacy Notice says data is usually stored in the United States and suppliers outside the country may be used, with no subprocessor list, the affiliate dossier's 8 (8 of 20). 8 + 15 + 0 + 8 = 31." }, "sources": [ { "what": "robots.txt (corporate.walmart.com, www.walmart.com, developer.walmart.com, www.ksl.com)", "url": "https://corporate.walmart.com/robots.txt", "seen": "2026-10-25" }, { "what": "Walmart's announcement, 21 October 2026", "url": "https://corporate.walmart.com/news/2026/10/Making-It-Possible-for-Agents-to-Shop-on-Behalf-of-Customers", "seen": "2026-10-25" }, { "what": "beta page linked from the post (bot check, not read)", "url": "https://www.walmart.com/agents", "seen": "2026-10-25" }, { "what": "corporate.walmart.com news sitemap (no later post on agents or the gateway)", "url": "https://corporate.walmart.com/news.sitemap.xml", "seen": "2026-10-25" }, { "what": "developer.walmart.com sitemap (2,474 pages, no gateway page; seller docs MCP only)", "url": "https://developer.walmart.com/sitemap.xml", "seen": "2026-10-25" }, { "what": "official MCP registry search for walmart", "url": "https://registry.modelcontextprotocol.io/v0/servers?search=walmart", "seen": "2026-10-25" }, { "what": "Walmart Customer Privacy Notice, updated 20 August 2026", "url": "https://corporate.walmart.com/privacy-security/walmart-privacy-notice", "seen": "2026-10-25" }, { "what": "security.txt", "url": "https://www.walmart.com/.well-known/security.txt", "seen": "2026-10-25" }, { "what": "responsible disclosure policy", "url": "https://corporate.walmart.com/article/responsible-disclosure-policy", "seen": "2026-10-25" }, { "what": "Reuters report via KSL, 21 October 2026 (only for what Reuters reported)", "url": "https://www.ksl.com/article/51639372/walmart-launches-tools-for-ai-agents-to-shop-for-customers", "seen": "2026-10-25" }, { "what": "RDAP for walmart.com", "url": "https://rdap.verisign.com/com/v1/domain/walmart.com", "seen": "2026-10-25" } ], "openQuestions": [ "Why it's listed. research/new-2026-10-21-scan/NEWLIST.md says a product reachable only by early-access request, with nothing to read but the announcement, isn't listed. The founder asked on 25 October 2026 for it to be listed anyway, as Claude Duet was, and the first agent's stop note is research/new-2026-10-25/notes/walmart-agent-gateway.md.", "firstReleased is empty. Walmart gives no date when anyone outside the beta could connect, and whether the beta was open on 21 October wasn't established. Set it from the first date an outside agent can connect; 21 October 2026 is the announcement.", "unchecked: www.walmart.com/agents (bot check on 25 October 2026), including the \"Request beta access\" button, \"Agentic terms\" link and invitation-only wording a press report describes there, not seen first-hand.", "unchecked: the full terms for AI agents, and the walmart.com Terms of Use (bot check).", "Who can connect. Reuters reported ChatGPT, Gemini and Meta's Muse connect directly and that the tools will be open to all account holders without Walmart+. Walmart's post says neither. Re-check when Walmart names partners or opens access.", "Agent Profiles are announced for about November 2026. Add them to the listing when they ship; data/upcoming.json could carry the entry.", "The endpoint, transport, auth method, tool list and any approval process for agent companies are not published. auth is set to mixed for company beta access plus customer sign-in, pending docs.", "TechCrunch's report of 21 October 2026 was not read; techcrunch.com's robots.txt disallows ClaudeBot and anthropic-ai, per the first agent's note.", "Walmart's post expands MCP as \"model text protocol\". Recorded as the post's wording, not deducted.", "The walmart-affiliate-api listing's line of 14 October 2026, that no official Walmart MCP server or public agent checkout programme was found, is still true of what anyone can use. Its next re-check should mention this announcement." ] }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "Walmart has published terms for agents shopping its sites, including customer approval of purchases by default, no access to payment cards and blocking of agents that break them. The gateway is a beta by request for companies and developers, with no public endpoint, documentation, tool list or price, and Agent Profiles are announced for about November 2026.", "bestFor": "Agents buying from Walmart and Sam's Club for a person, once the beta opens to them, with per-agent limits when Agent Profiles ship.", "strengths": [ "Walmart's published terms require customer approval of agent purchases by default and let Walmart ask for more approvals within a limit", "Agents don't receive payment-card details and can't add or change a customer's payment methods, per the terms of 21 October 2026", "Walmart's returns process applies to agent purchases, including when an agent doesn't act as intended", "Walmart states agents see the same prices as people on Walmart.com, with fees shown before purchase" ], "weaknesses": [ "No public MCP endpoint, tool list, developer documentation or price was found on 25 October 2026", "Access is a beta for companies and developers by request; the beta page sits behind a bot check and its conditions were not read", "Agent Profiles, with per-agent spending limits and separate purchase history, are announced for about November 2026 and not live", "The full terms for AI agents were not found as a readable page; only the post's summary of them was read", "No status page, changelog, rate limits or MCP registry entry for the gateway was found" ], "agentNotes": [ "Don't look for a public endpoint; Walmart hasn't published one, and the gateway starts as a beta for approved companies and developers", "Ask your human for approval before any Walmart purchase; Walmart's terms require it by default and block agents that act beyond the shopper's intent", "Don't request or store the customer's card details; Walmart's terms bar agents from payment-card data and payment-method changes", "Treat claims that ChatGPT, Gemini or Muse already connect through the gateway as Reuters's reporting; Walmart's own post doesn't say so" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 0, "avgRating": 0, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "F", "methodology": "0.6", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 8.3 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 0, "maintenance": 0, "payments": 10, "reliability": 5, "schema": 0, "security": 10, "transparency": 31 }, "provenanceScore": 66, "checked": { "categories": { "ergonomics": "2026-10-25", "maintenance": "2026-10-25", "payments": "2026-10-25", "reliability": "2026-10-25", "schema": "2026-10-25", "security": "2026-10-25", "transparency": "2026-10-25" }, "last": "2026-10-25", "oldest": "2026-10-25", "stale": false, "staleAfterDays": 90 }, "scoreHistory": [ { "date": "2026-10-25", "grade": "F", "kind": "listed", "method": "0.6", "score": 8.3 } ] }, "connect": {}, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/shopping.orders", "tool": "https://letme.dev/walmart-agent-gateway" }, "sameCompany": [ "walmart-affiliate-api" ], "notable": [ "Walmart's newsroom post dated 21 October 2026 (publishDate 2026-10-21T14:00:00 in the page) says \"we are building the Walmart Agent Gateway\", an MCP surface for agents, and \"We'll begin with a beta for companies and developers\". The post expands MCP as \"model text protocol\" (https://corporate.walmart.com/news/2026/10/Making-It-Possible-for-Agents-to-Shop-on-Behalf-of-Customers)", "The beta link in the post goes to www.walmart.com/agents. robots.txt allows the path, but it answered with Walmart's \"Robot or human?\" check (a redirect to /blocked) on 25 October 2026 and was not read", "The post says Agent Profiles are \"launching in the next month\" with no date, so about November 2026. Each agent gets its own profile in the customer's account, its purchases shown apart, approval for every purchase or a spending limit the customer sets ($50, $100 or $200 given as examples), and the profile can be turned off or deleted at any time (https://corporate.walmart.com/news/2026/10/Making-It-Possible-for-Agents-to-Shop-on-Behalf-of-Customers)", "The post sets terms for AI agents. Walmart's returns process applies, including when an agent doesn't act as intended. Purchases need the customer's approval by default and Walmart may require more approvals within a spending limit. Agents don't receive card details, can't change payment methods, get only the information the task needs, and are blocked if they break the terms (https://corporate.walmart.com/news/2026/10/Making-It-Possible-for-Agents-to-Shop-on-Behalf-of-Customers)", "Walmart says the gateway will help an agent find a customer's usual items without sharing the customer's broader purchase history with the agent. This is announced, not shown (https://corporate.walmart.com/news/2026/10/Making-It-Possible-for-Agents-to-Shop-on-Behalf-of-Customers)", "Reuters, as published by KSL on 21 October 2026, reported that Walmart \"launched\" the gateway, that it lets ChatGPT, Gemini and Meta's Muse connect directly to search and buy, and that the tools will be open to all Walmart account holders without Walmart+. Walmart's own post says none of this; it names those assistants only as existing integrations (https://www.ksl.com/article/51639372/walmart-launches-tools-for-ai-agents-to-shop-for-customers)", "The official MCP registry had no Walmart-owned entry on 25 October 2026. Its Walmart entries are third-party (com.hasdata/walmart, io.github.alyiox/mcp-walmart-ads, io.github.alyiox/mcp-walmart-marketplace, io.github.markswendsen-code/walmart) and none is this product (https://registry.modelcontextprotocol.io/v0/servers?search=walmart)" ], "area": "everyday", "details": [ { "label": "Surface listed", "value": "The Walmart Agent Gateway as Walmart describes it in its newsroom post of 21 October 2026, read on 25 October 2026. Listed at the founder's request on 25 October 2026 although only the announcement can be read, as Claude Duet was on 24 October. No beta access was requested, no sign-in was used and no MCP request was sent" }, { "label": "Status", "value": "Announced 21 October 2026 and described in the future tense (\"we are building\"). Begins with a beta for companies and developers through www.walmart.com/agents, which was behind a bot check. No date for wider access is given (https://corporate.walmart.com/news/2026/10/Making-It-Possible-for-Agents-to-Shop-on-Behalf-of-Customers)" }, { "label": "Who can connect today", "value": "Not established. Walmart's post names no approved assistant or company for the gateway and doesn't say how an agent is approved beyond the beta link. No public endpoint, tool list or documentation was found" }, { "label": "Live today, per Walmart", "value": "The terms for AI agents, stated in the post as rules agents must follow. Existing conversational commerce integrations with Muse, ChatGPT, Gemini and others, which the post doesn't say run through the gateway. Agents that shop today sign in with the customer's own account, with their purchases mixed in with the customer's (https://corporate.walmart.com/news/2026/10/Making-It-Possible-for-Agents-to-Shop-on-Behalf-of-Customers)" }, { "label": "Announced, not live", "value": "Agent Profiles, \"launching in the next month\" (about November 2026, no date). A profile per agent created the first time it shops through the gateway, linked when the customer signs in to Walmart, with per-agent purchase history, approval for every order or a spending limit, and deletion at any time. The gateway's help finding a customer's usual items without sharing purchase history (https://corporate.walmart.com/news/2026/10/Making-It-Possible-for-Agents-to-Shop-on-Behalf-of-Customers)" }, { "label": "Reported by Reuters, not stated by Walmart", "value": "That the gateway launched on 21 October 2026, that ChatGPT, Gemini and Meta's Muse connect directly to search and buy from Walmart and Sam's Club, and that it will be open to all Walmart account holders without a Walmart+ membership (Reuters via KSL, 21 October 2026, https://www.ksl.com/article/51639372/walmart-launches-tools-for-ai-agents-to-shop-for-customers)" }, { "label": "Capabilities", "value": "shopping.orders, shopping.search and shopping.prices are the jobs Walmart announces for the gateway, not functions we saw. Returns are covered by Walmart's returns process under the terms; no return function for agents is described, so shopping.returns is left out" }, { "label": "Other Walmart listings", "value": "walmart-affiliate-api is Walmart's affiliate product API, a different product. developer.walmart.com's Walmart Developer Docs MCP server is for marketplace sellers' API documentation and is not this gateway. Third-party Walmart MCP servers in the official registry are not Walmart's" }, { "label": "Category", "value": "shopping (Shopping, returns \u0026 refunds), because the gateway lets an agent buy from a retailer for a shopper. commerce covers platforms with a programmable catalogue and checkout for merchants, such as Shopify and commercetools" } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Walmart Inc.", "domain": "walmart.com", "domainRegistered": "1995-02-23", "endpointOnVendorDomain": null, "terms": "https://www.walmart.com/help/article/walmart-com-terms-of-use/3b75080af40340d6bbd596f116fae5a0", "privacy": "https://corporate.walmart.com/privacy-security/walmart-privacy-notice", "statusPage": "", "changelog": "", "securityTxt": "valid", "checked": "2026-10-25", "notes": [ "The announcement's footer reads © 2026 Walmart Inc. No page read names the legal entity that runs the gateway or its beta. The walmart-affiliate-api listing names Wal-Mart.com USA, LLC for walmart.com's API terms.", "The terms URL is the walmart.com Terms of Use recorded on the walmart-affiliate-api listing on 14 October 2026. www.walmart.com answers our reader with a bot check, so it was not read today. The terms for AI agents exist only as the summary in the post; no full document was found.", "The Walmart Customer Privacy Notice (Online and In-Store) shows Updated August 20, 2026. It says nothing about agents or the gateway. The post says the agent's own privacy policy covers what the agent receives and Walmart's Privacy Notice covers what the agent gives Walmart.", "www.walmart.com/.well-known/security.txt gives a Contact (the responsible disclosure policy on corporate.walmart.com), a Policy, a Canonical and Preferred-Languages, with no Expires field. Recorded as valid, as on the walmart-affiliate-api listing.", "No endpoint is published, so endpointOnVendorDomain is left empty. No status page or changelog for the gateway was found.", "RDAP for walmart.com gives a registration date of 23 February 1995.", "robots.txt was read first on corporate.walmart.com (allows ClaudeBot on the post), www.walmart.com (allows /agents), developer.walmart.com and www.ksl.com. www.walmart.com/agents answered with a bot check, which we did not try to get past." ], "score": 66, "checks": [ { "check": "Legal entity named", "value": "Walmart Inc.", "points": 20, "max": 20, "state": "ok" }, { "check": "Domain age", "value": "walmart.com, registered 1995-02-23 (31 years)", "points": 15, "max": 15, "state": "ok" }, { "check": "Endpoint on the vendor's domain", "value": "no hosted endpoint", "points": 0, "max": 0, "state": "na" }, { "check": "Terms of service", "value": "read, states 6 of the 7 things a reader expects, and has 3 clauses that cost points", "points": 3.1, "max": 10, "state": "part" }, { "check": "Privacy policy", "value": "read, states 8 of the 8 things a reader expects, and has 1 clause that costs points", "points": 8, "max": 10, "state": "part" }, { "check": "Status page", "value": "not found", "points": 0, "max": 10, "state": "no" }, { "check": "Changelog", "value": "not found", "points": 0, "max": 10, "state": "no" }, { "check": "security.txt", "value": "valid", "points": 10, "max": 10, "state": "ok" } ], "policies": [ { "kind": "terms", "url": "https://www.walmart.com/help/article/walmart-com-terms-of-use/3b75080af40340d6bbd596f116fae5a0", "state": "read", "readAt": "2026-10-14", "statedDate": "2026-09-09", "words": 14557, "points": 3.1, "max": 10, "expected": [ { "key": "terms.date", "label": "Gives the date it was last updated", "found": true, "quote": "Last Updated September 9, 2026", "says": "Last updated 2026-09-09" }, { "key": "terms.law", "label": "Names the governing law or courts", "found": true, "quote": "If the FAA is found not to apply to any portion of Section 20 of these Terms of Use, then the applicable laws of the State of Texas shall apply without regard to the choice-of-law principles of any other jurisdiction other than those of the State of Texas.", "says": "The law of the State of Texas" }, { "key": "terms.liability", "label": "States a limit on its liability", "found": true, "quote": "…\u0026 Licensing Notices,” “Indemnification,” “Termination,”“Disclaimer of Warranties,” “Limitation of Liability,” “Disputes, Arbitration, and Applicable Law,” and “General”." }, { "key": "terms.termination", "label": "Says how the agreement or account can be ended", "found": true, "quote": "Your account may be restricted or terminated for any reason, at our sole discretion." }, { "key": "terms.changes", "label": "Says how changes to the terms are announced", "found": true, "quote": "When we say “Terms of Use,” we mean these Terms of Use and all other terms and policies posted by Walmart on the Walmart Sites (and any updates by Walmart to these Terms of Use and those terms and policies).", "says": "Changes are posted, with no other notice named" }, { "key": "terms.use", "label": "Lists what users may not do", "found": true, "quote": "In connection with the Walmart Sites, you will not:" }, { "key": "terms.sla", "label": "Refers to a service level or uptime commitment", "found": false } ], "toKnow": [ { "key": "training", "label": "Says it may use customer content to train or improve models, and no opt-out was found", "found": true, "quote": "…but not limited to the Inputs), as well as your purchasing history from the Walmart Sites, your use of promotions as well as personal information, may be used to further enhance and improve the Generative AI Features, the underlying model and the Walmart Sites as well as to generate Output.", "costsPoints": true }, { "key": "terms.automated", "label": "Restricts automated access", "found": true, "quote": "or any use of data mining, robots, or similar data gathering and extraction tools is strictly prohibited.", "costsPoints": true }, { "key": "terms.nonotice", "label": "Says the terms or the service can change without notice", "found": true, "quote": "Except as otherwise provided by law, at any time without notice to you, we may (1) change, restrict access to, suspend, or discontinue the Walmart Sites or any portion of the Walmart Sites", "costsPoints": true }, { "key": "terms.cutoff", "label": "Says access can be ended without notice or for any reason", "found": true, "quote": "Your account may be restricted or terminated for any reason, at our sole discretion." }, { "key": "terms.arbitration", "label": "Requires arbitration or waives class actions", "found": true, "quote": "IMPORTANT: THESE TERMS OF USE CONTAIN A MANDATORY ARBITRATION PROVISION THAT, AS FURTHER SET FORTH IN SECTION 20 BELOW, REQUIRES THE USE OF ARBITRATION ON AN INDIVIDUAL BASIS TO RESOLVE DISPUTES." } ], "notes": [ { "date": "2026-10-14", "text": "Users may not use the Walmart Sites for any commercial purpose.", "quote": "Use the Walmart Sites for any commercial purpose, or for any purpose that is fraudulent or otherwise tortious or unlawful." }, { "date": "2026-10-14", "text": "Users may not use Walmart's Materials to develop, train or improve any artificial intelligence or machine learning model without written consent.", "quote": "or use any Materials to develop, train, or improve any artificial intelligence or machine learning model, tool, or technology" }, { "date": "2026-10-14", "text": "Users grant Walmart a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide licence to use, modify and publish any Content they make available.", "quote": "You grant to Walmart a royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, unlimited, nonexclusive license to use, reproduce, create derivative works from, modify, publish, edit, translate, distribute, perform and display (publicly or otherwise) any Content that you make available" } ] }, { "kind": "privacy", "url": "https://corporate.walmart.com/privacy-security/walmart-privacy-notice", "state": "read", "readAt": "2026-10-14", "statedDate": "2026-08-20", "words": 7942, "points": 8, "max": 10, "expected": [ { "key": "privacy.date", "label": "Gives the date it was last updated", "found": true, "quote": "Updated: August 20, 2026", "says": "Last updated 2026-08-20" }, { "key": "privacy.collected", "label": "Says what personal data is collected", "found": true, "quote": "Added information related to voice interactions in the “How Do We Collect Personal Information?” section." }, { "key": "privacy.retention", "label": "Says how long data is kept", "found": true, "quote": "We will keep the personal information we collect about you for as long as necessary to carry out the purposes set forth in this Privacy Notice or any other notice provided at the time of data collection, but no longer than as required or permitted under applicable law or internal Walmart policy.", "says": "For as long as needed, with no period named" }, { "key": "privacy.processors", "label": "Says who else receives the data", "found": true, "quote": "This experience may require your measurements and images to be shared with our third-party service provider Perfect Corp." }, { "key": "privacy.sale", "label": "Says whether personal data is sold or shared for advertising", "found": true, "quote": "Performing and providing advertising and marketing services, including targeted advertising." }, { "key": "privacy.rights", "label": "Says what rights people have over their data", "found": true, "quote": "You have the right to opt-out of the sale or processing of your Personal Information for targeted advertising as described above." }, { "key": "privacy.contact", "label": "Gives a privacy contact", "found": true, "quote": "If you submit your request by calling, you can email your forms to globalprivacy@wal-mart.com with the subject line “Authorized Agent”.", "says": "globalprivacy@wal-mart.com" }, { "key": "privacy.transfers", "label": "Says where data is transferred or stored", "found": true, "quote": "Location of processing and cross-border transfers of personal information: Your information is usually stored in the United States, but we may use suppliers or partners located outside of the country.", "says": "Data goes to the United States" } ], "toKnow": [ { "key": "training", "label": "Says it may use customer content to train or improve models, and no opt-out was found", "found": true, "quote": "Undertaking activities to verify or maintain the quality or safety of our services or devices and to improve, upgrade, or enhance them, such as training our AI.", "costsPoints": true }, { "key": "privacy.sells", "label": "Says it sells personal data or shares it for advertising", "found": true, "quote": "These kinds of disclosures may be deemed selling under certain state privacy laws." } ] } ] }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/walmart-agent-gateway.json", "live": { "slug": "walmart-agent-gateway", "securityTxt": { "url": "https://walmart.com/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "valid", "checkedAt": "2026-10-25T15:28:25.025977164Z" }, "updatedAt": "2026-10-25T15:28:25.025977164Z" } } }