Governance infrastructure for agentic commerce

Agentic Commerce Governance for Merchants and Platforms

Govern agent commerce before you enforce it.

Normalize agent identity and authority evidence, evaluate deterministic policy in Shadow Mode, and investigate every result through a Timeline, Authority Map, and Human Review Inbox—without replacing your payment processor, checkout, CDN, or commerce protocol.

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Current milestoneOBSERVECustomer requests remain unchanged

Decision Receipt

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REVIEW

Agentshopping-agent-74

Actionpurchase · EUR 642

Authority evidenceVerified · fresh

Policycheckout-policy · v1.4.2

PURCHASE_LIMIT_EXCEEDED

Purchase requires review because the delegated mandate permits transactions up to EUR 500 and the requested transaction is EUR 642.

RECEIVED

NORMALIZED

EVALUATED

RECEIPT

Observed only. Origin request not modified.

One normalized core across changing ecosystems

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Protocol names indicate adapter boundaries, not bundled provider integrations.

THE GOVERNANCE GAP

An agent can authenticate. That does not prove it has authority.

Agent commerce joins identity, delegation, policy, protocol context, and business intent. AgentGateFee turns those fragments into one deterministic, inspectable governance record.

Normalize the evidence

Keep provider-specific payloads at the edge. Core policy receives a stable Agent Event with identity, authority, resource, commerce, attribution, and integrity context.

Provider input→Normalized event

Evaluate without impact

Run policy in Shadow Mode first. The same policy version and normalized input produce the same outcome, while your application remains in control.

Policy v1.4.2→Deterministic result

Keep the explanation

Every completed evaluation produces an immutable Decision Receipt with policy provenance, reason codes, evidence state, and a deterministic explanation.

Decision→Evidence-backed receipt

CONTROLLED ADOPTION

Observe first. Decide deliberately. Enforce explicitly.

The adoption path is staged by design. No integration begins with a silent block, and no provider outage is converted into a malicious-agent verdict.

01Available now

OBSERVE

Send Agent Events, normalize evidence, evaluate policy, and inspect receipts.

Generic Event API + Shadow Mode
Decision Receipts + Timeline
Authority Map + Human Review

02Gated next stage

DECIDE

Request a synchronous decision while customer code still controls the action.

Explicit API call
Customer-owned outcome
Safe failure semantics

03Later, opt-in

ENFORCE

Apply allow, block, require-auth, or review through a replaceable adapter.

Explicit activation
Configured fallback
No CDN replacement

THE OBSERVE WORKSPACE

From a policy result to an evidence-backed investigation.

Three connected views turn each completed evaluation into something your team can inspect and review. They are tenant-scoped, evidence-minimized, and non-enforcing.

01 · OBSERVEAvailable now

Decision Timeline

Follow retained Event, evidence, transition, evaluation, and Receipt facts in one chronology. Observed and derived facts stay visibly distinct.

02 · OBSERVEAvailable now

Agent Authority Map

Inspect identity, delegation, mandate, Resource, and policy context as it existed at evaluation time. The map explains evidence—not legal authority or trust.

03 · OBSERVEAvailable now

Human Review Inbox

A new OBSERVE REVIEW Receipt can open an immutable 24-hour request. A tenant admin records one reason-coded disposition; the Receipt and origin request never change.

Evidence, not execution.Timeline reads, authority explanations, and reviewer dispositions do not approve a payment, modify customer traffic, or activate enforcement.

DECISION RECEIPTS

The decision is only useful if you can explain it later.

A receipt binds the result to an immutable policy version and the evidence used at evaluation time. Historical receipts remain interpretable when policies or commercial entitlements change.

Policy provenanceVersion, digest, evaluated rules, and reason codes.
Evidence lifecycleVerification and freshness metadata—not a blind trusted flag.
Deterministic explanationRendered from governed reason templates, not free-form model output.
Tenant-safe retrievalReceipts remain isolated and immutable.

INTEGRATE WITHOUT REPLATFORMING

One event endpoint. Your infrastructure stays yours.

Start by sending a copy of an agent interaction. AgentGateFee returns an accepted event reference and processes OBSERVE asynchronously. Your original request path is untouched.

Keep your payment processor Keep your checkout Keep your cdn Keep your commerce protocol

POST /v1/events

{
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "event_type": "COMMERCE_ACTION_REQUESTED",
  "occurred_at": "2026-09-03T07:00:00Z",
  "interaction_id": "int_01K4W9…",
  "agent_identity": {
    "agent_reference": "shopping-agent-74"
  },
  "request": {
    "kind": "COMMERCE",
    "action": "PURCHASE",
    "target": "checkout"
  }
}

202 Acceptedevent_id: 0199…

AGENTGATEFEE FOR SHOPIFY · PRIVATE PILOT

Know the economics behind every agentic order.

Audit source confidence, contribution margin, checkout compatibility, and policy exposure through one read-only Shopify workflow. Simulate guardrails in Shadow Mode without changing checkout or live orders.

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Shopify monitorRead-only

Attribution: Evidence + confidence
Economics: Contribution margin
Compatibility: Checkout dependencies
Policy: WOULD_* simulation

Working pilot plans from $0 to custom volume.

WORKING PILOT PRICING

Start in Shadow Mode. Scale by Agent Event.

One Agent Event is one accepted, unique normalized event. Prices below are working monthly USD list prices for early access—not a contractual offer.

OBSERVE is the current customer-facing slice

Developer

$0/ month

Agent Events: 100K
Resources: 2
Retention: 7 days

OBSERVE API and deterministic Decision Receipts
Decision Timeline, Authority Map, and Review Inbox
Shadow Mode before any enforcement

Self-service OBSERVE account

No production enforcement.

Start free

Launch

Typical next step

$99/ month

Agent Events: 1M
Resources: 5
Retention: 30 days

OBSERVE API and deterministic Decision Receipts
Decision Timeline, Authority Map, and Review Inbox
Shadow Mode before any enforcement

OBSERVE plan · contact us to activate

DECIDE / ENFORCE eligibility is future-gated; it is not availability or activation.

Growth

$399/ month

Agent Events: 10M
Resources: 25
Retention: 90 days

OBSERVE API and deterministic Decision Receipts
Decision Timeline, Authority Map, and Review Inbox
Shadow Mode before any enforcement

OBSERVE plan · contact us to activate

DECIDE / ENFORCE eligibility is future-gated; it is not availability or activation.

Scale

$1,499/ month

Agent Events: 50M
Resources: 100
Retention: 365 days

OBSERVE API and deterministic Decision Receipts
Decision Timeline, Authority Map, and Review Inbox
Shadow Mode before any enforcement

OBSERVE plan · contact us to activate

DECIDE / ENFORCE eligibility is future-gated; it is not availability or activation.

Enterprise

Custom

Agent Events: Custom
Resources: Custom
Retention: Custom

Contract review
Contract-defined governance workspace
Shadow Mode before any enforcement

Contract-configured plan

Capabilities require explicit contract configuration and product gates.

Included in every published OBSERVE plan3 connected governance views

Decision TimelineTrace retained event, evidence, evaluation, and receipt facts in one chronology.

Agent Authority MapInspect the identity, delegation, resource, and policy evidence behind a receipt.

Human Review InboxRecord one reason-coded human disposition for an eligible OBSERVE review.

No transaction tax.

No percentage-of-transaction, GMV, settlement, custody, affiliate-payout, or payment-execution fee. AgentGateFee does not process payments or hold funds.

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ARCHITECTURE WITH BOUNDARIES

Governance—not another payment rail.

No funds

No custody, settlement, card storage, payment processing, or merchant-of-record role.

No proprietary rail

Existing payment and commerce protocols remain provider integrations, not rebuilt infrastructure.

Evidence first

Material policy outcomes can be traced to normalized evidence and a specific policy version.

Vendor neutral

Partner economics never silently alter policy decisions or provider ranking.

Data minimized

Collect only what is required for policy, evidence, attribution, integrity, and analytics.

Integrate before build

Commodity provider capabilities belong behind replaceable ports and adapters.

UCP FIELD GUIDES

Follow the evidence from adoption to governed action.

Three connected resources separate what is live, what a merchant must implement, and which authority and policy decisions remain outside protocol conformance.

Research · 01Evidence tracker

UCP Merchant Adoption Tracker

See which merchants are verified live, platform-enabled, or only announced—using primary-source evidence.

Open the tracker

Guide · 02Interactive checklist

UCP Merchant Readiness Checklist

Assess the documented implementation path and merchant-owned governance controls in two separate tracks.

Start the checklist

Guide · 03Responsibility map

The Governance Layer Beyond UCP

Map the boundary between interoperable commerce messages and merchant decisions about trust, authority, review, and evidence.

See the governance layer

Evidence-first

Protocol support, merchant readiness, and governed authorization are related—but they are not interchangeable claims.

Governance frameworkDefine the category and its evidence boundary.Agent authoritySeparate identity from delegated permission.Policy engineEvaluate deterministic, versioned rules.Decision ReceiptsPreserve reasons and evidence lineage.Shadow ModeTest policy without customer impact.Human ReviewAdd bounded, accountable disposition.Agent monitoringFollow interactions through evidence.

CLEAR BY DESIGN

Questions teams ask before the first Agent Event.

What is agentic commerce governance?

It is the policy and evidence layer that determines whether an AI agent has the identity, delegated authority, and context required for a commerce action—and preserves why the decision was reached.

Does AgentGateFee process payments?

No. AgentGateFee does not hold funds, settle transactions, store card data, operate a payment rail, or become the merchant of record.

Do we need to replace our gateway or checkout?

No. OBSERVE begins with a copy of an Agent Event. The design preserves the customer’s processor, checkout, CDN, API gateway, and commerce protocol whenever possible.

What happens when identity evidence is missing?

Missing evidence is recorded as missing or unknown. It is not automatically treated as negative evidence or proof that an agent is malicious.

What does a Human Review approval do?

It records a tenant administrator’s evidence disposition for one review request. In OBSERVE it does not change the Decision Receipt, authorize a payment, modify the customer request, or trigger enforcement.

Are DECIDE and ENFORCE included in the paid plans today?

No. The current self-service slice is Developer OBSERVE. Some catalog plans preserve future eligibility, but eligibility is not current availability and never activates enforcement automatically.

TALK TO THE TEAM

Bring your first Agent Event.

Tell us about the resource you want to observe. The form sends directly to contact@agentgatefee.com; AgentGateFee does not retain the message body in its database.

Prefer email?contact@agentgatefee.com

Start safely

Make the first decision observable.

Begin with evidence and Shadow Mode. Trace the result, inspect authority, and record human review while enforcement stays outside the critical path.

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