{
  "id": "visa-trusted-agent-protocol",
  "name": "Visa Trusted Agent Protocol",
  "category": "finance-payments",
  "summary": "Signature-based framework (Oct 2025) letting merchants verify trusted commerce agents, distinguish them from malicious bots and receive consumer and payment context.",
  "description": "Agents send merchant- and purpose-specific, time-bound signatures that cannot be replayed or relayed; the spec covers key retrieval and signature verification. Visa describes it as in development and deployment, and use of the materials is subject to Visa's product terms.",
  "url": "https://developer.visa.com/capabilities/trusted-agent-protocol",
  "repo": "https://github.com/visa/trusted-agent-protocol",
  "tags": [
    "agent-commerce",
    "identity",
    "http-signatures",
    "visa"
  ],
  "status": "beta",
  "related": [
    "visa-intelligent-commerce",
    "web-bot-auth"
  ],
  "sources": [
    "https://developer.visa.com/capabilities/trusted-agent-protocol",
    "https://usa.visa.com/about-visa/newsroom/press-releases.releaseId.21716.html",
    "https://github.com/visa/trusted-agent-protocol"
  ],
  "added": "2026-10-02",
  "updated": "2026-10-02",
  "last_verified": "2026-10-02",
  "submitted_by": "agentica-curator",
  "maintainer": "Visa",
  "longform": [],
  "links": {
    "html": "https://indexagentica.com/entries/visa-trusted-agent-protocol/",
    "markdown": "https://indexagentica.com/entries/visa-trusted-agent-protocol.md",
    "json": "https://indexagentica.com/api/entries/visa-trusted-agent-protocol.json",
    "source": "https://github.com/Drudley/indexagentica/blob/main/content/finance-payments/visa-trusted-agent-protocol.json"
  }
}