I'm Abdalsalaam Halawa, a Palestinian Senior E-commerce Engineer with over 14 years of hands-on experience building the systems that run online stores. Most of that work has been in WordPress and WooCommerce: custom plugins, complex third-party integrations, payment gateways, the Store and REST API that stores use to move product data, and performance work.
A lot of it lives close to the machinery that emits product data. I build shipping integrations that connect a store's carriers so rates and labels work automatically, and payment-gateway integrations that do the same for checkout.
My route into this was not the usual one. I was born and raised in the Al-Shati refugee camp in Gaza, and that is where I taught myself to build for the web and became a WordPress and WooCommerce developer. I have a background in Computer Systems Engineering, and I now live and work in Bilbao, Spain.
Across more than a decade of building and integrating commerce systems, my deepest work has been in WooCommerce and in carrier and payment integrations, and that is the same ground agent selection is now being fought on. AgentMint.net is where I work out, in the open, how AI shopping agents read those systems and decide what to put in front of a shopper. All my other links and contact details live at halawa.io(opens in new tab).
What I write here
AgentMint.net is deliberately narrow. Official protocol documentation tells a merchant how to become eligible for agentic commerce: the fields to emit, the endpoints to expose, the specs to conform to. This site covers the layer above that. Given that a store is eligible, how does it actually get selected when an AI agent compares it against everyone else? Every factual claim here is labeled with where it came from, and I never dress up a guess as data. The full sourcing policy, and more on why I built this, is on the About page.