Agentic Commerce is Here: We Just Taught AI to Complete Purchases

Arcade.dev and Lithic have introduced a groundbreaking development in commerce by enabling AI agents to autonomously browse, evaluate, and complete purchases, overcoming the longstanding challenge of authentication in agentic commerce. This advancement involves the creation of "just-in-time auth," which provides AI agents with temporary, transaction-specific credit cards, ensuring secure and controlled spending through payment guardrails. Early adopters, such as logistics companies and marketing teams, are already leveraging this technology to automate supply purchases and ad credits. The initiative is open-sourced, encouraging broader adoption and development, and marks a significant shift from AI-assisted to truly autonomous economic participation, paving the way for AI to handle large-scale transactions in the near future.