On September 2, 2026, Anthropic published Claude Commerce Agents, a free reference repository (github.com/anthropics/commerce-agents) with two already-built agents — one for the shopper and one for the merchant — designed so retailers, airlines, telecoms, and entertainment platforms can deploy agentic commerce without starting from scratch.
The shopper agent lives inside a merchant's app or website and helps customers search for products, compare options, build multi-item purchases, receive personalized recommendations, and get answers about their orders. The merchant agent, by contrast, is built for store staff: it analyzes sales, monitors inventory, suggests pricing, and drafts marketing campaigns — but any real change it proposes requires human approval before it executes.
The blueprint ships with reference harnesses, patterns, and guardrails, and can be deployed via Claude's Messages API, the Agent SDK, Claude Managed Agents, or directly on Amazon Bedrock, Google Cloud Vertex AI, and Microsoft Foundry — meaning it doesn't lock a company into a single cloud provider to adopt it.
Anthropic cites data showing the gap between technical capability and consumer willingness: according to a Gartner survey, only 11% of consumers are willing to let an AI agent make purchases on their behalf. Accenture found that 74% would delegate routine tasks, while only 32% are ready for purchase decisions and just 9% would accept fully autonomous purchases. As a real-world impact reference, Anthropic notes that users of Walmart's "Sparky" AI assistant spend roughly 35% more than non-users.
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