How AI shopping agents pick one store, product, or offer over another, and how merchants and developers win that choice.https://agentmint.net/https://agentmint.net/updates/https://agentmint.net/updates/A dated log of changes to how AI shopping agents select products and stores, and to the protocols merchants track.Thu, 09 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://agentmint.net/agentic-commerce-optimization/https://agentmint.net/agentic-commerce-optimization/The complete guide to agentic commerce optimization (AEO for ecommerce): make your catalog legible and preferable to AI shopping agents.Wed, 08 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://agentmint.net/agentic-payment-protocols/https://agentmint.net/agentic-payment-protocols/AP2, Visa Trusted Agent, and Mastercard Agent Pay decide whether an agent can complete a purchase with you: table stakes to be selectable.Wed, 08 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://agentmint.net/ai-crawlers-robots-llms-txt/https://agentmint.net/ai-crawlers-robots-llms-txt/Blocking AI crawlers in robots.txt hides the page data agents read beyond your feed. Here's the allow-list and what llms.txt adds.Wed, 08 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://agentmint.net/chatgpt-shopping-optimization/https://agentmint.net/chatgpt-shopping-optimization/Get your products surfaced in ChatGPT shopping: fix feed completeness, title-query match, and crawler access, not an 'enroll' button.Wed, 08 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://agentmint.net/handbook/information-density/https://agentmint.net/handbook/information-density/Maximize verifiable facts per token on machine surfaces. Same content, different format at one URL is negotiation; varying it by user-agent is cloaking.Wed, 08 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://agentmint.net/handbook/serving-agent-traffic/https://agentmint.net/handbook/serving-agent-traffic/How to afford being open to AI agents: edge-cache the cheap machine surfaces, allowlist verified bots, and measure the load. Not block legit agents.Wed, 08 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://agentmint.net/how-ai-agents-choose-products/https://agentmint.net/how-ai-agents-choose-products/How AI shopping agents rank products: the structured signals (price, availability, reviews, data completeness) that decide which store gets picked.Wed, 08 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://agentmint.net/perplexity-shopping-optimization/https://agentmint.net/perplexity-shopping-optimization/Perplexity recommends what it can crawl and cite: win visibility with citable, structured product pages and clear crawler access.Wed, 08 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://agentmint.net/product-titles-for-ai-agents/https://agentmint.net/product-titles-for-ai-agents/Agents match shopper queries to titles almost literally. Lead with the words buyers type, not a brand name like 'The Luna'.Wed, 08 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://agentmint.net/reference/ai-shopping-crawlers/https://agentmint.net/reference/ai-shopping-crawlers/The dated reference for every AI shopping-relevant crawler token: OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, Perplexity, Amazon, and Meta, plus what's confirmed absent.Wed, 08 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://agentmint.net/research/agent-selection-index/https://agentmint.net/research/agent-selection-index/A quarterly, reproducible benchmark of how AI shopping agents choose products and offers; methodology published now, numbers gated until author-verified.Wed, 08 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://agentmint.net/research/description-rewrite-experiment/https://agentmint.net/research/description-rewrite-experiment/A field test replicating the ACES finding that description rewrites shift agent recommendations: methodology now, data as it lands.Wed, 08 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://agentmint.net/start/https://agentmint.net/start/New here? A 30-minute triage: which checklist to run first, and the shortest reading path through AgentMint.net for your situation.Wed, 08 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://agentmint.net/store-not-in-chatgpt-shopping/https://agentmint.net/store-not-in-chatgpt-shopping/Products missing from ChatGPT shopping? It's almost always data gaps: vague titles, missing availability, blocked crawlers. Diagnose in order.Wed, 08 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://agentmint.net/gemini-shopping-ranking/https://agentmint.net/gemini-shopping-ranking/Google AI Mode likely ranks via UCP and your Merchant Center feed: the lever is feed quality and Shopping Graph coverage, not ad spend.Tue, 07 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://agentmint.net/glossary/https://agentmint.net/glossary/Plain-English, sourced definitions for the agentic-commerce stack (agent selection, win rate, AEO, UCP, ACP, product feed), each typed by evidence.Tue, 07 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://agentmint.net/glossary/agent-win-rate/https://agentmint.net/glossary/agent-win-rate/Agent win rate = the share of agent shopping sessions where your product is recommended or bought: here's how to define and measure it honestly.Tue, 07 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://agentmint.net/make-product-feed-ai-readable/https://agentmint.net/make-product-feed-ai-readable/An AI-readable product feed leads titles with category and use-case and fills every attribute agents parse: the gaps are why agents skip you.Tue, 07 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://agentmint.net/platforms/https://agentmint.net/platforms/One catalog, many agents: the shared signals that surface you across ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity, plus the per-engine tie-breakers.Tue, 07 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://agentmint.net/product-schema-for-ai-shopping/https://agentmint.net/product-schema-for-ai-shopping/Product JSON-LD is the machine-readable layer agents trust when your page and feed disagree: ship Offer, price, availability, and review fields.Tue, 07 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://agentmint.net/research/https://agentmint.net/research/Independent, reproducible tests of what moves agent selection: methodology public, results labeled 'Data collection in progress' until real.Tue, 07 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://agentmint.net/research/methodology/https://agentmint.net/research/methodology/A repeatable protocol to measure your agent win rate across ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity: prompts, sampling, and honest error bars.Tue, 07 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://agentmint.net/ucp-vs-acp/https://agentmint.net/ucp-vs-acp/UCP (Google) vs ACP (OpenAI/Stripe): scope, agent reach, and which one gets your store selected on Gemini vs ChatGPT. Implement both.Tue, 07 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT