Shopware's frontier discovery and incubation team for the agentic shift in commerce.
We are living through the fastest technological shift in human history, and commerce is one of the first industries being rebuilt. AI agents are already discovering, evaluating, and buying on behalf of humans. The rules of discovery, trust, and transaction are being rewritten in real time.
The Agentic Commerce Lab at Shopware exists to help shape those rules in the open. We work ahead of the roadmap, exploring what commerce will need as AI agents begin buying, selling, and operating on behalf of people and businesses.
We build in the open and use GitHub as the home for our public experiments, reference implementations, protocol work, and developer-facing assets. Expect this organization to grow as the Lab ships more open-source artifacts for agentic commerce.
Some of our current initiatives:
- ARD resource discovery plugin
- AXP protocol
- WebMCP plugin
- Alibaba's PageAgent Shopware plugin
- SwagA2UI
- swag-mcp-app
- Sales Agent Harness
We work across the emerging protocol ecosystem that will shape how agents discover resources, communicate, evaluate offers, authorize payments, and transact.
| Protocol / rail | Description | Developers / stewards |
|---|---|---|
| ARD | Agentic Resource Discovery - Making merchant capabilities, data, and actions discoverable to AI agents | Agentic Commerce Lab, Shopware |
| AXP | Agentic Experience Protocol - Rich product detail, quality signals, and embedded experiences for agentic commerce | Agentic Commerce Lab, Shopware |
| UCP | Universal Commerce Protocol - Transport-agnostic merchant checkout, order, and capability discovery | Google, Shopify, commerce partners |
| ACP | Agentic Commerce Protocol - Checkout-session protocol behind ChatGPT Instant Checkout | OpenAI, Stripe |
| AP2 | Agent Payments Protocol - Mandates and consent proofs for agent-authorized payments | Google, FIDO Alliance |
| A2A | Agent2Agent Protocol - Agent-to-agent communication and task lifecycle | Linux Foundation, Google |
| MCP | Model Context Protocol - Tool and data access layer for agents | Anthropic, Agentic AI Foundation |
| WebMCP | Web Model Context Protocol - In-page browser surface for agent tools and context | W3C Web Machine Learning CG, Google, Microsoft |
| MPP | Machine Payments Protocol - Session-based machine payment primitive | Stripe, Tempo |
| x402 | HTTP 402-based machine payment pattern, including stablecoin settlement paths | Coinbase and ecosystem contributors |
- Agentic Commerce for Developers
- Agentic Commerce Alliance
- Universal Commerce Protocol
- Agent2Agent Protocol
- Agentic Commerce Protocol
- Stefan Hamann's Agentic Commerce Blog
We welcome contributions from developers, merchants, partners, and researchers interested in keeping agentic commerce open, interoperable, and merchant-preserving.
Whether you are improving documentation, experimenting with protocol implementations, building integrations, or challenging assumptions, you are helping shape how commerce works in the agentic era.
Built by the Agentic Commerce Lab at Shopware.