Shopify opens checkout to browser-based AI agents
Shopify opens checkout to browser-based AI agents
Shopify 向基于浏览器的 AI 代理开放结账功能
While some retailers, like Amazon (and Adidas, apparently!), are blocking AI agents from making purchases on users’ behalf on their respective platforms, e-commerce platform Shopify has moved in the other direction.
尽管亚马逊（显然还有阿迪达斯！）等一些零售商正在阻止 AI 代理代表用户在其平台上进行购买，但电子商务平台 Shopify 却采取了相反的举措。
On Monday, the company announced that browser-based AI agents can now complete purchases on Shopify merchants’ sites, extending their capabilities beyond just searching for products and adding items to carts.
周一，该公司宣布，基于浏览器的 AI 代理现在可以在 Shopify 商家网站上完成购买，将其功能从单纯的搜索产品和添加购物车扩展到了结账环节。
Shopify previously supported WebMCP for its storefronts and carts, allowing browser-based AI agents to comb through a Shopify retailer’s inventory, search for products, and add them to a cart. The addition of WebMCP support for checkout, including Shop Pay, means these agents can now read the checkout screen, update it, and submit the transaction with the buyer’s authorization, without relying on screenshots or scraping web pages, the company said.
Shopify 此前已为其店面和购物车提供 WebMCP 支持，允许基于浏览器的 AI 代理浏览 Shopify 零售商的库存、搜索产品并将其添加到购物车。该公司表示，此次为结账（包括 Shop Pay）增加 WebMCP 支持，意味着这些代理现在可以读取结账页面、进行更新，并在获得买家授权后提交交易，而无需依赖截图或网页抓取。
This update introduces three new tools — get_checkout, update_checkout, and complete_checkout — that allow agents to inspect a checkout, change things like the customer’s address or delivery option, and then place an order after the buyer authorizes it. The feature is rolling out to all eligible Shopify merchants, said Gil Greenberg, a staff product manager who works on agentic commerce at Shopify, in a post on X.
此次更新引入了三个新工具——get_checkout、update_checkout 和 complete_checkout，允许代理检查结账信息、更改客户地址或配送选项等内容，并在买家授权后下单。Shopify 负责代理商务的员工产品经理 Gil Greenberg 在 X 上发文称，该功能正向所有符合条件的 Shopify 商家推出。
Shopify already offers a hosted Model Context Protocol (MCP) server, which allows agents to work server-to-server. The proposed standard WebMCP, meanwhile, is designed for agents that work inside the buyer’s browser. Both leverage Shopify’s Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP), which provides a common way to search for and discover products, build carts, and check out.
Shopify 此前已提供托管的模型上下文协议 (MCP) 服务器，允许代理进行服务器到服务器的交互。与此同时，提议的 WebMCP 标准专为在买家浏览器内运行的代理而设计。两者都利用了 Shopify 的通用商务协议 (UCP)，该协议提供了一种搜索和发现产品、构建购物车以及结账的通用方式。
Top AI agents like Muse and Instinct already have direct partnerships with Shopify for agentic commerce. The Instinct partnership was announced today.
Muse 和 Instinct 等顶级 AI 代理已经与 Shopify 建立了直接的代理商务合作伙伴关系。Instinct 的合作关系于今日宣布。
“If your agent is operating in the buyer’s browser, use WebMCP tools provided on storefront and checkout to efficiently complete order placement, instead of navigating HTML built for humans,” Greenberg wrote on X. “These WebMCP tools provide structured and efficient APIs, purposely designed — via UCP — to ensure accurate commerce facts, required disclosures, and handoff requirements.”
“如果你的代理在买家的浏览器中运行，请使用店面和结账页面提供的 WebMCP 工具来高效完成下单，而不是去解析为人类构建的 HTML，”Greenberg 在 X 上写道。“这些 WebMCP 工具提供了结构化且高效的 API，通过 UCP 专门设计，以确保商业事实的准确性、必要的披露信息以及交接要求。”