# About the Author > AgentMint.net is written by Abdalsalaam Halawa, a Palestinian Senior E-commerce Engineer with over 14 years of hands-on experience helping online stores grow and operate at scale. It is published independently under the AgentMint.net brand. AgentMint.net grows directly out of my day-to-day work as an e-commerce engineer, and I publish it independently at [halawa.io](https://halawa.io), where all my links and contact details live. Building the systems that power a store means working inside the machinery that actually emits product data (feeds, structured markup, prices, availability) for real online stores. Shipping-integration work means living in GTINs, fulfillment options, delivery windows, and return policies: exactly the structured attributes that agentic-commerce protocols have started to read. Agent selection sits at the intersection of the two. ## Why agent selection Shoppers are starting to ask an AI agent (ChatGPT, Google's AI Mode and Gemini, Perplexity, Copilot, Claude) to find and compare products, and the agent returns a short list or a single pick. That pick is the new storefront. [Agent selection](/glossary/#agent-selection) is the question of why an agent chooses one store, product, or offer over another, and what a merchant or developer can do to be the one it chooses. AgentMint.net is deliberately narrow. Official protocol documentation (from the teams behind UCP, ACP, and the agentic payment rails) tells you how to become *eligible*: the fields to emit, the endpoints to expose, the specs to conform to. That work is essential, and we link to it rather than rewrite it. AgentMint.net covers the layer above eligibility: given that you are eligible, how do you actually get *selected*? It is the practitioner handbook for [agentic commerce optimization](/agentic-commerce-optimization/), closer to what webmaster-guidelines-era SEO writing was to Google's own documentation than to the specs themselves. ## How we source claims Model behavior and agentic-commerce specifications move fast, and the space is full of confident guesses. The thing that makes AgentMint.net worth trusting is that every factual claim on the site is labeled with where it came from. We use four evidence types, and you will see them attached to claims throughout: - **spec-fact**: stated in an official specification or first-party documentation. We link the primary source so you can verify it yourself. - **reported**: a finding from a named third party (an academic study, a vendor, or a news report). We name the source and give the date, because model behavior has a shelf life. - **hypothesis**: our own inference or framing. We phrase it as an inference and never dress it up as data. - **measured**: a result from our own experiments. We only make a measured claim when real data backs it, and we have not published one yet. Our research pages ship with the methodology complete and the results held in a "Data collection in progress" state until the numbers are real. Two rules follow from this and are worth stating plainly: we never invent a number, a benchmark, a quote, or a testimonial; and any example that is illustrative rather than measured is labeled as such. When we cannot verify something, we say so rather than guess. One fabricated figure would undermine the entire premise of the site, so we treat that line as absolute. You can read how we design and publish experiments in the [Research Lab](/research/). ## Contact and newsletter The best way to reach me is through [halawa.io](https://halawa.io). If you want new research and platform updates as they publish, [subscribe to the newsletter](/#newsletter), or use the Newsletter link in the header of any page. No spam, and you can unsubscribe at any time.