Visa Trusted Agent Protocol
Signature-based framework (Oct 2025) letting merchants verify trusted commerce agents, distinguish them from malicious bots and receive consumer and payment context.
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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.
Related
- Visa Intelligent Commerce: Visa's portfolio for agentic commerce, embedding payment credentials, controls, authentication and protections into AI-initiated purchases.
- Web Bot Auth: IETF draft architecture for identifying automated traffic (bots and agents) by cryptographically signing HTTP requests with HTTP Message Signatures.
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
Machine-readable
- JSON
- Markdown
- Source file on GitHub (edit via pull request)