How an AI shopping agent reads a store, the protocols it buys through, and where checkout and payment stop it, with the sources for every claim. Setting up a store on one platform? The guides are step by step.
How an agent sees a store
Well-known documents, HTTP Link headers and API catalogs are places where a store can say what it offers, and content signals say how its pages may be used. Their status ranges from Standards Track RFC to proposal.
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How an agent sees a store
A User-Agent string can be spoofed, and robots.txt rules are a request to crawlers rather than access authorization. Web Bot Auth, an IETF draft, would let an agent sign its requests so a server can verify who sent them.
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How an agent sees a store
Raw HTML, the rendered page, the accessibility tree, structured data, Markdown versions and llms.txt, and what each one means for an agent trying to read your product page.
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