Teaching agents to pay — Anna Spysz, Stripe
Sep 1, 2026 · 19:10
Anna Spysz of Stripe walks through how agentic commerce works in a talk based on her own experience building a shopping agent. She demonstrates how agents discover and buy products: reading structured catalog data rather than rendered pages, speaking protocols like UCP, and operating within guardrails like disclosed fees and logged decisions. Using her headphones purchase as the running example, she shows how a merchant capabilities manifest makes a store visible to agents, and how a persona config change can flip an agent from pushy to trustworthy. The episode's core claim is that agentic commerce demands deliberate design from both sides of a transaction, not just a checkout API.
