# Agent-payment rail readiness

> Whether your payment stack can complete an agent-initiated purchase over rails like AP2, Visa Trusted Agent Protocol, or Mastercard Agent Pay.

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- **Affects (funnel stage):** Choice
- **Evidence:** reported
- **Confidence:** High
- **Impact:** 3/3
- **Status:** active
- **Last verified:** 2026-07-08

## Per-platform status

Undocumented platforms show "unknown" - honest unknowns, never invented.

| Platform | Status | Notes | Source |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| ChatGPT | unknown | Not documented by this platform. | - |
| Gemini / Google AI Mode | unknown | Not documented by this platform. | - |
| Perplexity | unknown | Not documented by this platform. | - |
| Copilot | unknown | Not documented by this platform. | - |
| Claude | unknown | Not documented by this platform. | - |

## Evidence and sources

- [AP2: Agent Payments Protocol](https://ap2-protocol.org) (2026-07-07)

## How to act on this

Ask your payment provider in writing which agent-payment rails your account supports today, record the dated answer, and re-confirm periodically since support is still evolving.

### Related checklist items
- [Confirm your payment stack can complete an agent-initiated purchase (AP2 / Visa Trusted Agent / Mastercard Agent Pay).](https://agentmint.net/tools/agentic-readiness-checklist/#a-protocol-presence-04) (Readiness)

### Related signals
- [ACP feed and checkout readiness](https://agentmint.net/signals/acp-readiness/)
- [UCP profile and order-management readiness](https://agentmint.net/signals/ucp-readiness/)
- [Guest checkout completability](https://agentmint.net/signals/guest-checkout/)

## Notes

These rails gate purchase completability (selectability), not the comparison itself.