# UCP profile and order-management readiness

> Whether a store targeting Google/UCP surfaces publishes a public /.well-known/ucp profile and can return order status for the capabilities it declares.

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- **Affects (funnel stage):** Choice
- **Evidence:** spec-fact
- **Confidence:** Very high
- **Impact:** 2/3
- **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 | supported | UCP is the protocol Google's shopping/Gemini surfaces read; the profile at /.well-known/ucp must be publicly accessible without authentication. | [link](https://developers.google.com/merchant/ucp) (verified 2026-07-08) |
| Perplexity | unknown | Not documented by this platform. | - |
| Copilot | unknown | Not documented by this platform. | - |
| Claude | unknown | Not documented by this platform. | - |

## Evidence and sources

- [UCP business profile guide](https://developers.google.com/merchant/ucp/guides/ucp-profile) (2026-07-08)
- [Google: Universal Commerce Protocol developer guide](https://developers.google.com/merchant/ucp) (2026-07-08)

## How to act on this

If you target Google/UCP surfaces, publish an unauthenticated /.well-known/ucp profile with real capabilities and signing keys, and back any declared order-management capability with a retrievable status endpoint.

### Related checklist items
- [If targeting Google/UCP surfaces, publish a /.well-known/ucp profile: public, no auth.](https://agentmint.net/tools/agentic-readiness-checklist/#a-protocol-presence-01) (Readiness)
- [Make order status retrievable after purchase.](https://agentmint.net/tools/agentic-readiness-checklist/#a-checkout-ops-04) (Readiness)

### Handbook chapters
- [Serving Agent Traffic Without Breaking Your Origin](https://agentmint.net/handbook/serving-agent-traffic/)

### Related signals
- [ACP feed and checkout readiness](https://agentmint.net/signals/acp-readiness/)
- [Validation hygiene (use existing validators)](https://agentmint.net/signals/validation-hygiene/)
- [Agent-payment rail readiness](https://agentmint.net/signals/payment-rail-readiness/)