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Agent Payments Protocol
Google-announced payment-agnostic protocol for agent-initiated payments, positioned as complementary to A2A and MCP.
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Google announces the Agent Payments Protocol (AP2)
A payment-agnostic mandate framework meant to sit beside A2A and MCP.
Google publishes the AP2 specification in an open GitHub repo
Mandate-based agent authorization is now a readable spec, not only a keynote.