ACP documentation home states the job to be done: programmatic checkout

Agents render checkout state; sellers keep processors. Not HTTP 402.

The Agentic Commerce Protocol documentation home describes a programmatic exchange between buyers, their agents, and sellers to complete a purchase, with agents rendering checkout UI and sellers keeping existing back-end models and payment processing.

Why it matters

This is the cleanest public statement that ACP is checkout orchestration, not micropayment metering.

Source: Agentic Commerce Protocol docs

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