In this episode, Scott talks with Paul Conroy about agentic commerce: how AI agents buy things on our behalf, how Stripe’s shared payment tokens keep them on a budget, and how the Machine Payments Protocol finally puts HTTP 402 Payment Required to work in your API middleware.

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Mentioned in this episode:

• Charging AI Agents Per Request: A Practical Guide to the Machine Payments Protocol – https://conroyp.com/articles/practical-guide-machine-payments-protocol
• Agentic Commerce Beyond The Checkout: Building with Machine Payments (Paul’s talk) – https://conroyp.com/speaking/agentic-commerce-beyond-the-checkout-building-with-machine-payments
• PayForGoals.com, the MPP demo – https://payforgoals.com
• PayForGoals.com source code – https://github.com/square1-io/www.payforgoals.com
• laravel-mpp package – https://github.com/square1-io/laravel-mpp
• Stripe Machine Payments Protocol quickstart – https://docs.stripe.com/payments/machine/mpp/quickstart

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