Agent Commerce / 2026
AI Credit and Agent Payments
Mapping authorization, wallets, spending limits, refunds, and machine-mediated transactions.
Agents will not only recommend actions. They will request tools, run workflows, consume services, and spend budgets on behalf of users. A wallet alone is not enough.
Agent payments need a richer permission model: who can spend, what they can spend on, how much, under what conditions, with what logs, and how a human can stop or reverse the action.
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