Agentic Commerce

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Agentic commerce studies how AI agents can act for buyers, sellers, or businesses across product discovery, recommendation, negotiation, and transactions. Systems combine language models with catalog retrieval, preference tracking, planning, deterministic constraint checks, and payment or authorization protocols. Benchmarks test long-horizon shopping, hidden requirements, budget-constrained baskets, auctions, and business operations, while simulations and experiments examine privacy, persuasion, fraud, and how gains are shared. Agents can complete useful tasks, but reliable performance remains difficult when intent is ambiguous or constraints change, and safe deployment requires evidence-based decisions, secure payments, and protections against conflicting commercial incentives.

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46 papers13 papers in the last four weeks, up 63% on the four weeks before. 0.1% of all new papers.

  1. AutoVend: Benchmarking LLM Agents on Long-Horizon Autonomous Vending Operations

    Oct 27, 2026Qiming Shi, Yikun Li, Beidi Luan +5Long-Horizon LLM AgentsLLM Agent Evaluation

    StepFun · Zhejiang University · Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University +1

  2. Preference Is Not Permission: Personalizing the Auto-Purchase Line in Agentic Commerce

    Oct 21, 2026Ryotaro Shimizu, Sai HtaungKham, Mo FanAgentic CommerceAutomated Agent Evaluation

    ZOZO Research, Tokyo, Japan

  3. Toolflation: Seller Agents Distort Tool Markets Through Spontaneous Generative Engine Optimization

    Oct 20, 2026Zhenwei Tang, Di Bai, Jintao Liu +3Generative Engine OptimizationDeception in Language Models

    Google · University of Toronto · Google DeepMind

  4. Securing Agentic Commerce Through Behavior-Aware Fraud Detection and Cybersecurity for Trusted AI-Agent Payment Authorization

    Oct 20, 2026Kayode L. OgunsusiAI Agent SecurityAgentic Commerce

    Credit and Fraud Risk, American Express, Phoenix, Arizona, USA

  5. A Cue's Hidden Price: Auditing Seller Influence on AI Shoppers

    Oct 19, 2026Felix Buecheler, Gerardo Berbeglia, Mingyu GuoAI Agent AuditingGenerative Engine Optimization

    Adelaide University, Adelaide, Australia · Melbourne Business School, Melbourne, Australia

  6. Provable Authority: A Protocol for Verifiable Authority Resolution and Control Across Human, Organizational, and Agentic Transactions

    Oct 16, 2026Jeremy Blackburn, Tim Hines, Matthew Koepp +2AI Agent GovernanceRuntime Enforcement for AI Agents

  7. Get In, Decide, Prove: A Merchant-Side Readiness Benchmark for Agentic Commerce

    Oct 12, 2026Adrian de Valois-Franklin, Alex Bogdan, Anas Ibrahim +2Agentic CommerceWeb Agent Benchmarks

    Evolutionairy AI Toronto, Canada

  8. Personalization Matters: Long-Horizon Conversation Agent with User-Centric Information in Online Shopping Interactions

    Oct 8, 2026Rena Gao, Yue Dai, Hao Guan +4Agentic CommerceRecommender Systems

    ByteDance · The University of Melbourne · University of Technology Sydney +1

  9. BazaarBench: Delegation Safety in Decentralized C2C Marketplaces Run by LLM Agents

    Oct 5, 2026Ziyan Wang, Shuqing Shi, James Oldfield +5AI Agent Safety BenchmarksLLM Agent Safety

    King’s College London · Institute for Decentralized AI · University of Oxford +1

  10. Parallelism or Concession? Concurrency-Aware Procurement Negotiation for Agentic Commerce

    Oct 5, 2026Xiaolin Xu, Donghao ZhuMulti-Agent System OptimizationAutomated Negotiation

    School of Business Nanjing University Nanjing, Jiangsu, China · Institute of Business Sciences University of Tsukuba Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan · University of Tokyo Market Design Center Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan

  11. Who Keeps the Gains from Personal AI Assistants? Seller Adaptation and the Unassisted in a Language-Model Market Simulation

    Oct 5, 2026Haonan Huang, Joey XiaoAgentic CommercePersonal AI Agents

    Princeton University · New York University

  12. RealWorldShop: Benchmarking and Improving Conversational Shopping Agents in Real-World E-commerce

    Sep 30, 2026Xinwei Yang, Kelong Mao, Yudong Guo +4LLM Agent EvaluationAI Agent Benchmarks

    College of Computer Science, Sichuan University · Engineering Research Center of Machine Learning and Industry Intelligence, Ministry of Education, China · Institute of Data Science, National University of Singapore

  13. Selective Elicitation as a Commercial Influence Channel: A Reproducible Synthetic Shopping-Agent Stress Test

    Sep 29, 2026Jiapeng LiPreference ElicitationLarge Language Model-Based Recommendation

  14. AX is the New AEO

    Sep 28, 2026Ido Finder, Assaf Elovic, Gad Shalev +1Agentic CommerceWeb Agents

    ora research

  15. Agentic Commerce Bench: Measuring Fraud Detection for Agents That Spend Money

    Sep 27, 2026Ankit Srivastava, Debjyoti PaulAgentic CommerceFinancial Fraud Detection

    Gordon AI

  16. Shopping by algorithm: How agentic AI deploys human heuristics as a surrogate consumer

    Sep 23, 2026Davood Wadi, Yu MaAgentic CommerceLLM Decision-Making

    Desautels Faculty of Management, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

  17. Issuer-Sovereign Agentic Payments

    Sep 23, 2026Dishant Sharma, Rajneesh Kaushal, Ashu KanaujiaFinancial ServicesAgentic Commerce

    Thales Group

  18. LEGIT: Credentialing Protocol for Trustworthy AI Agent Marketplaces

    Sep 18, 2026Steve Drew, Jiayu ZhouAgentic CommerceAI Agent Evaluation

    University of Calgary · University of Michigan

  19. Whom Do AI Agents Work For? Role Assignment Induces Sponsorship Bias in LLM Recommenders

    Sep 16, 2026Davood Wadi, Yu MaLanguage Model Bias EvaluationLarge Language Model-Based Recommendation

    Desautels Faculty of Management, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

  20. Evaluating Open-Weight E-Commerce Agents with Environment-Grounded Verification

    Sep 14, 2026Nimit Shah, Haitz Sáez de Ocáriz BordeTool-Use EvaluationLLM Agent Evaluation

    AION

  21. Agentic Share-of-Search: A Multi-Agent AI System for Competitive Decision-Making in LLM-Mediated E-Commerce

    Sep 10, 2026Spandan Ghose ChowdhuryMulti-Agent LLM SystemsAI-Assisted Decision Making

    College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta, Georgia, USA

  22. E-Commerce Bench: Evaluating LLM Agents on Long-Horizon Autonomous Business Operation

    Aug 31, 2026Wei Fan, Xinjie Shen, Xudong Guo +8Long-Horizon Agent EvaluationAI Agent Benchmarks

    1Qwen Team, Alibaba Group · Department of Computer Science and Engineering, HKUST · 2Taobao & Tmall Group, Alibaba Group

  23. A Formal Analysis of Agent Payment Protocols

    Aug 30, 2026Ke Jiang, Mohan Yu, Yuan Chang +4AI Agent SecurityAgentic Commerce

    Southern University of Science and Technology · Indian Institute of Technology · City University of Hong Kong

  24. Does Rank Still Matter? Position Bias When AI Agents Shop on Our Behalf

    Aug 24, 2026Davood Wadi, Yu MaAgentic SearchAgentic Commerce

    Desautels Faculty of Management, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

  25. TRACE: Agentic Catalog Enrichment with Multi-source Evidence Grounding

    Aug 21, 2026Rohan Kumar, Steven Xu, Kyle MacDonald +4Product Attribute ExtractionLLM Information Extraction

    DoorDash, Inc.

  26. Bridging Search and CRM: Productionizing AI Product Research Agents for Customer Re-Engagement

    Aug 19, 2026Mandar Kulkarni, Pooja A., Samir ShahAgentic CommerceAutonomous Research Agents

    Flipkart Internet Pvt Ltd Bangalore, India

  27. MACS: A Hybrid Multi-Agent Framework for Reliable Conversational E-Commerce Recommendation

    Aug 14, 2026Juli Huang, Hannah Clay, Sajjad Beygi +3Recommender SystemsAgentic Commerce

    Stanford University Department of Computer Science Stanford, CA, USA · University of Southern California Los Angeles, CA, USA · Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT Sloan School of Management Cambridge, MA, USA +1

  28. ComboShoppingBench: Evaluating LLM Agents for Budget-Constrained Basket Shopping with Coupons

    Aug 10, 2026Adrian Li, Kelong Mao, Yudong Guo +7Benchmark DesignLLM Agent Evaluation

  29. From Product Search to Preference Articulation: The Economics of Agentic Commerce

    Aug 9, 2026Lingxiu Dong, Kaiwen Luo, Fasheng XuAgentic SearchE-Commerce Search

    Olin Business School, Washington University in St. Louis · School of Business, University of Connecticut

  30. Agentic Commerce World: An Auditable and Verifiable Environment for Vibe Commerce

    Aug 3, 2026Shicheng Fan, Mingdai Yang, Duohao Wang +9AI Agent EvaluationAgent Evaluation

    University of Illinois at Chicago · 2Springbrand · 3Northwestern University +6