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OpenAI and Stripe publish an agentic checkout protocol

OpenAI and Stripe released the Apache-2.0 Agentic Commerce Protocol and used it for Instant Checkout in ChatGPT. The specification coordinates product, order and delegated-payment flows while keeping the seller as merchant of record.

Why it matters: Commerce agents gained a concrete transaction contract with explicit confirmation and bounded payment tokens instead of unconstrained browser automation around checkout.

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MCP launches an official open server registry

The Model Context Protocol project launched a preview catalog and API for publishing and discovering public MCP servers. Its registry implementation and OpenAPI specification are open source, and organizations can build filtered public or private sub-registries.

Why it matters: A common discovery layer can reduce one-off integration work while giving enterprises a standard upstream format for an approved internal tool catalog.

Read storyOriginal source · blog.modelcontextprotocol.io