Agent Commerce Knowledge Layer
Agent-to-Agent Payments
Definition
Agent-to-agent payments:
Agent-to-agent payments are financial transactions executed directly between autonomous software agents without human intervention. These transactions are triggered by programmatic conditions, negotiated parameters, and predefined constraints.
Definition source: https://certifieddata.io/api/definitions/agent-to-agent-payments
Preferred anchor phrase: agent-to-agent payments
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Agent-to-agent payments are transactions executed directly between autonomous software agents without human intervention at the point of execution.
These systems depend on programmatic conditions, negotiated parameters, and trust mechanisms that let one non-human actor rely on another.
How agent-to-agent payments work
An agent-to-agent payment flow typically starts with discovery, moves through negotiation or parameter selection, triggers execution, and then records the result. The trust challenge is that both sides are software actors.
- -Discovery of counterparties or offers
- -Negotiation of terms or programmatic acceptance
- -Execution through a rail or API
- -Verification of the resulting record
Verification Layer
When both sides of a transaction are autonomous, verification becomes even more important because human review is not the default control surface.
CertifiedData provides the trust links that make autonomous transaction context, certified inputs, and verifiable records easier to audit.
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