Powering AI commerce with the new Agent Payments Protocol (AP2)

A Google Cloud blog post announcing the Agent Payments Protocol (AP2) for AI commerce. The companion cites it, with Mastercard and Coinbase, for payment firms issuing credentials that let registered agents spend within limits their principals set. It documents payment rails in the habitat people built for agents.

Cited in

the companion paper (Companion §2)

Used for

Habitat construction; payment rails

Strand

The agent economy · Payment rails & agentic commerce

Cite

@misc{google2025ap2,
  title = {Powering AI commerce with the new Agent Payments Protocol (AP2)},
  author = {Stavan Parikh and Rao Surapaneni},
  year = {2025},
  howpublished = {Google Cloud Blog},
  url = {https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/announcing-agents-to-payments-ap2-protocol},
}