--- title: "Amazon: retailer profile | Agent Ready Checkout" description: "Amazon: Runs its own shopping agents (Alexa for Shopping, Buy for Me) while its robots.txt disallows third-party agent. Matrix status, facts and sources." canonical: https://agentreadycheckout.com/retailers/amazon site: "Agent Ready Checkout" last_updated: 2026-11-04 section: "Retailers" --- # Amazon: retailer profile | Agent Ready Checkout > Amazon: Runs its own shopping agents (Alexa for Shopping, Buy for Me) while its robots.txt disallows third-party agent. Matrix status, facts and sources. Source: https://agentreadycheckout.com/retailers/amazon Site: Agent Ready Checkout Last reviewed: 2026-11-04 Retailer profile # Amazon In short Runs its own shopping agents (Alexa for Shopping, Buy for Me) while its robots.txt disallows third-party agent user agents such as ChatGPT-User and GoogleAgent-Shopping; joined the UCP Tech Council in Apr 2026. No cell reads live, pilot or announced. amazon.com robots.txt disallows all paths for ChatGPT-User, OAI-SearchBot, GoogleAgent-Shopping, Copilot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot and other AI agent user agents. ## Fact sheet Type Retailer Operator Amazon.com, Inc. Homepage [aboutamazon.com](https://www.aboutamazon.com) Matrix reach 0 live, 0 pilot, 0 announced, 2 not supported, 10 with no statement found ## The column in full: every protocol | Protocol | Status | Note | Source and read date | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | ACP | not supported | robots.txt disallows ChatGPT-User and OAI-SearchBot on all paths | amazon.com, 4 Nov 2026 | | UCP | not supported | Joined the UCP Tech Council on 24 Apr 2026; robots.txt disallows GoogleAgent-Shopping, and no UCP checkout was found on Amazon | amazon.com, github.com, 4 Nov 2026 | | AP2 | no statement found | no statement found (2026-11-04) | aboutamazon.com, 4 Nov 2026 | | Visa TAP | no statement found | no statement found (2026-11-04) | aboutamazon.com, 4 Nov 2026 | | Visa IC | no statement found | no statement found (2026-11-04) | aboutamazon.com, 4 Nov 2026 | | Mastercard Agent Pay | no statement found | no statement found (2026-11-04) | aboutamazon.com, 4 Nov 2026 | | Agent Pay for Machines | no statement found | no statement found (2026-11-04) | aboutamazon.com, 4 Nov 2026 | | Amex ACE | no statement found | no statement found (2026-11-04) | aboutamazon.com, 4 Nov 2026 | | x402 | no statement found | no statement found (2026-11-04) | aboutamazon.com, 4 Nov 2026 | | MPP | no statement found | no statement found (2026-11-04) | aboutamazon.com, 4 Nov 2026 | | Link for agents | no statement found | no statement found (2026-11-04) | aboutamazon.com, 4 Nov 2026 | | Verifiable Intent | no statement found | no statement found (2026-11-04) | aboutamazon.com, 4 Nov 2026 | | | | 0 live or pilot of 12 | | | | ## Sourced facts - amazon.com robots.txt disallows all paths for ChatGPT-User, OAI-SearchBot, GoogleAgent-Shopping, Copilot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot and other AI agent user agents. [amazon.com](https://www.amazon.com/robots.txt), read 4 Nov 2026. - Amazon combined Rufus and Alexa+ into Alexa for Shopping, which can buy at a target price, reorder and shop other online stores. [aboutamazon.com](https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/retail/alexa-for-shopping-ai-assistant), read 4 Nov 2026. - Buy for Me completes purchases on other brands' sites using the customer's primary address and card; Amazon's terms say Amazon acts as the customer's agent and the external merchant is the seller. [amazon.com](https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=TvONBJQDmg1tTiTKVC), read 4 Nov 2026. - Amazon joined the UCP Technical Council. [ucp.dev](https://ucp.dev/documentation/announcements/), read 4 Nov 2026. - Bloomberg reported Amazon won a court order blocking Perplexity's Comet shopping agent from its store. [bloomberg.com](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-10/amazon-wins-court-order-blocking-perplexity-s-ai-shopping-bots), read 4 Nov 2026.Trade press ## In the vendors section - [Amazon (as a retailer)](https://agentreadycheckout.com/vendors/amazon), retailer profile - [Amazon (Alexa for Shopping and Buy for Me)](https://agentreadycheckout.com/vendors/amazon-rufus-buy-for-me), agent surface profile ## Sources 1. [aboutamazon.com](https://www.aboutamazon.com), read 4 Nov 2026 2. [amazon.com/robots.txt](https://www.amazon.com/robots.txt), read 4 Nov 2026 3. [Alexa for Shopping](https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/retail/alexa-for-shopping-ai-assistant), read 4 Nov 2026 4. [amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html](https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=TvONBJQDmg1tTiTKVC), read 4 Nov 2026 5. [ucp.dev/documentation/announcements/](https://ucp.dev/documentation/announcements/), read 4 Nov 2026 6. [bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-10/amazon-wins-court-order-blocking-perplexity-s-ai-shopping-bots](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-10/amazon-wins-court-order-blocking-perplexity-s-ai-shopping-bots), read 4 Nov 2026 Last reviewed 4 Nov 2026 ## Edition Matrix edition of 4 Nov 2026. Reviewed 4 Nov 2026, [6 sources](#sources-h). ## Method [How cells, sources and read dates are defined](https://agentreadycheckout.com/method)