ap2-shopping-agent

ap2-shopping-agent is a skill for Claude Code from OrcaQubits/agentic-commerce-skills-plugins. It costs 45 tokens per session (924 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A skill for building an AP2 Shopping Agent, the software role that represents a buyer during an online purchase. AP2 is a protocol for coordinating shoppers, sellers, and payment services through structured requests and confirmations.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to receive buying requests, formalize them, find and negotiate with merchants, obtain payment details, request user confirmation, and coordinate the transaction.
Why use it?
It provides guidance for managing the many steps and participants in an agent-based purchase instead of handling each interaction separately.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Part of the ap2-agentic-payments plugin — 18 skills, 1 agent shipped together

Good fit Use it to receive buying requests, formalize them, find and negotiate with merchants, obtain payment details, request user confirmation, and coordinate the transaction.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/orcaqubits/agentic-commerce-skills-plugins/ap2-shopping-agent
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add OrcaQubits/agentic-commerce-skills-plugins --skill ap2-shopping-agent
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/OrcaQubits/agentic-commerce-skills-plugins

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install ap2-agentic-payments, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 18 skills, 1 agent.

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Per session 45 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 924 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00045 $0.00924
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.00462
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00185
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00092

Measured 9d ago against content hash 1e1e98faa0e3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ap2-shopping-agent scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 9d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

ap2-agentic-payments/skills/ap2-shopping-agent/SKILL.md · 107 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 107 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

AP2 Shopping Agent Implementation

Before writing code

Fetch live docs:

  1. Fetch https://ap2-protocol.org/specification/ for Shopping Agent responsibilities
  2. Web-search site:github.com google-agentic-commerce AP2 samples roles shopping_agent for reference implementation
  3. Web-search site:github.com google-agentic-commerce AP2 samples python src roles for source code structure
  4. Fetch SDK docs for agent framework classes (Google ADK)

Conceptual Architecture

What the Shopping Agent Does

The Shopping Agent (SA) is the primary orchestrator of AP2 transactions. It acts as the user's representative, coordinating between all other roles:

  1. Receives user intent — Understands what the user wants to buy
  2. Creates Intent Mandates — Formalizes user intent into structured mandates
  3. Discovers merchants — Finds merchants that can fulfill the intent
  4. Negotiates with merchants — Presents mandates, receives Cart Mandates
  5. Coordinates with Credentials Provider — Gets payment methods, handles tokenization
  6. Manages user interaction — Presents options, collects confirmations
  7. Orchestrates the full flow — Drives the human-present transaction flow

Note: The Shopping Agent does not create Payment Mandates. Payment Mandates are constructed by the Merchant Payment Processor (MPP).

Agent Card

The Shopping Agent's Agent Card declares:

  • AP2 extension support in capabilities.extensions[]
  • Skills related to shopping (product search, cart management, payment)
  • Authentication requirements for users
  • Supported input/output modes

Key Responsibilities

Intent Capture
  • Parse user's natural language shopping request
  • Extract: what to buy, constraints (price, brand, quality), preferences
  • Present structured understanding back to user for confirmation
  • Create and present Intent Mandate for signing
Merchant Interaction
  • Discover merchant agents (via Agent Cards or registry)
  • Present Intent Mandate to relevant merchants
  • Receive and evaluate Cart Mandates
  • Handle merchant clarification requests
  • Support multi-merchant scenarios (compare offers)

Read the full file on GitHub · 107 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 9d ago First seen · 107 lines · 45 tokens per session scan A 1e1e98faa0e3

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ap2-shopping-agent is a skill published in the GitHub repository OrcaQubits/agentic-commerce-skills-plugins (39 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 45 tokens to every session and 924 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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