// Vision · Build log · May 9, 2026
The browser is becoming optional.
The next billion users of the internet won't be human. They'll be agents — booking, buying, comparing, transacting on our behalf. Every storefront on Earth is about to need a second front door.
I built one. It's open source. Here's what it means.
The thesis
For thirty years, e-commerce has optimized for the human eye. Hero images. A/B-tested CTAs. Pixel-perfect checkout flows. Hundreds of hours go into the presentation layer of every storefront.
That entire stack is about to become a fallback.
In two years, your customer is more likely to be a piece of software than a person. They will have asked an agent — Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, an Indian alternative we haven't built yet — to handle the transaction. The agent doesn't see your hero image. It doesn't care about your fonts. It wants structured, predictable, semantically-rich endpoints it can call confidently.
Storefronts of the future will compete on how well their APIs talk to agents — not how pretty their checkout looks.
This isn't speculation. OpenAI + Stripe shipped the Agentic Commerce Protocol (ACP) in late 2025. Google + Shopify shipped UCP. Anthropic shipped plugins and skills. The plumbing is being laid down right now, in the open, and the next phase is adoption.
Every platform — Shopify, Magento, WooCommerce, and India's homegrown stack like Dukaan, Shiprocket, and Instamojo — will need to ship an agent layer. Stores that don't will lose customers they never knew arrived.
AgentBazaar — proof of concept
A mock shoe store with no human-facing UI. Just an API. Plus a Claude skill that knows how to use it.
You say “buy me running shoes under ₹4000, size 9.” Claude searches, ranks, presents three options, modifies the cart on request, takes a delivery address, places the order, and confirms via email. The whole flow happens in chat. No webpage clicked. No form filled.
How it works
Four pieces, no magic.
/manifest describes every available action — it's the homepage, but for agents.SKILL.md. Teaches Claude when to discover, search, cart, modify, checkout — and how to stay in character as a concierge.The architectural insight: the manifest is the homepage. Agents don't browse — they discover. A single endpoint that lists capabilities, parameters, and policies makes the whole store extensible. Add an action tomorrow, and every agent that talks to your store learns it without a code change.
Try it in 60 seconds
You'll need Claude Code — Anthropic's terminal client. Don't have it? The video shows the full flow.
npm install -g @anthropic-ai/claude-code
/plugin marketplace add https://github.com/geekyvinayak/agentbazaar.git /plugin install agentbazaar-shop@agentbazaar
> Buy me running shoes under ₹4000, size 9.
Who should care
| If you are | What this means for you |
|---|---|
| A founder building e-commerce | Your agent layer is your next moat. Start now. |
| A product manager | Half your roadmap is about to be agents, not pages. |
| A platform (Shopify, etc.) | Whoever ships first-class agent SDKs wins the next decade. |
| An investor | The infra layer for agentic commerce is wide open. |
| An engineer | Fork this template. Make your own store agent-buyable. |
What's next
AgentBazaar is intentionally minimal — it's a template, not a product. The roadmap I'm thinking about:
- ACP / UCP compliance — make the manifest speak the emerging standards natively.
- Real payment rails — Razorpay test mode integration, then UPI deep links sent to messaging apps.
- Multi-agent — same store, skills for ChatGPT, Gemini, custom MCPs.
- Reference adapters — drop-in modules for Shopify and WooCommerce so existing stores can ship an agent layer in a day.
Build with me
The repo is MIT-licensed. Star it if the thesis resonates. Fork it if you're building. Open an issue if you're skeptical — those are usually the most useful conversations.
By Vinayak · @geekyvinayak