--- title: "Amazon (as a retailer): vendor profile | Agent Ready Checkout" description: "Amazon (as a retailer): Online retailer whose Conditions of Use carry Agent Terms that require agents to identify themselves and let. Sourced vendor profile." canonical: https://agentreadycheckout.com/vendors/amazon site: "Agent Ready Checkout" last_updated: 2026-11-05 section: "Vendors" --- # Amazon (as a retailer): vendor profile | Agent Ready Checkout > Amazon (as a retailer): Online retailer whose Conditions of Use carry Agent Terms that require agents to identify themselves and let. Sourced vendor profile. Source: https://agentreadycheckout.com/vendors/amazon Site: Agent Ready Checkout Last reviewed: 2026-11-05 Vendor profile, retailer # Amazon (as a retailer) In short Amazon's Conditions of Use treat any software acting for a person as an agent and require it to put Agent/ and its name in the user agent string, to answer truthfully when asked whether it is a computer, and not to dodge blocking measures. Amazon may limit agents by technical means. It accepts no ACP or UCP checkout. ## At a glance What it is Online retailer whose Conditions of Use carry Agent Terms that require agents to identify themselves and let Amazon limit, by technical measures, how an agent uses its services. Type [Retailer](https://agentreadycheckout.com/vendors/by-type/retailer) Homepage [amazon.com](https://www.amazon.com) Matrix column 0 live, 0 pilot, 0 announced, 2 not supported, 10 with no statement found [Amazon in the matrix](https://agentreadycheckout.com/retailers/amazon) Last read 5 Nov 2026 ## What it does for this layer - Amazon's Conditions of Use define an Agent as any software or service that takes autonomous or semi-autonomous action on behalf of, or at the instruction of, a person or entity. [amazon.com](https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=508088), read 5 Nov 2026. - Amazon's Agent Terms require an agent to include "Agent/\[agent name\]" in the user agent string of every HTTP or HTTPS request, for example Agent/AmazonAgent. [amazon.com](https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=508088), read 5 Nov 2026. - Amazon's Agent Terms require agents to answer truthfully any prompt that asks whether an interaction comes from a human or a computer. [amazon.com](https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=508088), read 5 Nov 2026. - Amazon's Agent Terms say Amazon may limit, including by technical measures and at its sole discretion, whether and how any agent uses Amazon services. [amazon.com](https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=508088), read 5 Nov 2026. - Amazon's Agent Terms bar agents from circumventing any measure meant to block, limit or control agent access. [amazon.com](https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=508088), read 5 Nov 2026. - Amazon says it carries hundreds of millions of products, including 300 million items with fast, free Prime delivery across more than 35 categories. [aboutamazon.com](https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/retail/amazon-shopping-app-buy-for-me-brands), read 5 Nov 2026. Vendor claim - SiliconANGLE reported on 21 Sep 2026 that Amazon had blocked Meta's Muse agent from its marketplace and told users of the block late on Sunday 20 Sep 2026. [siliconangle.com](https://siliconangle.com/2026/09/21/amazon-blocks-metas-muse-agent-from-shopping-on-users-behalf/), read 5 Nov 2026, dated 21 Sep 2026. Secondary source **Partner lists that name it** | Where it appears | Source | Basis | Read | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Endorser list of the Universal Commerce Protocol | ucp.dev | Secondary source | 5 Nov 2026 | ## Standards | Standard | Matrix status and cell | Source and read date | | --- | --- | --- | | ACP | not supported 4 Nov 2026 | amazon.com, read 4 Nov 2026 | | UCP | not supported 4 Nov 2026 | amazon.com, read 4 Nov 2026 | | AP2 | no statement found 4 Nov 2026 | | | Visa TAP | no statement found 4 Nov 2026 | | | Visa IC | no statement found 4 Nov 2026 | | | Mastercard Agent Pay | no statement found 4 Nov 2026 | | | Agent Pay for Machines | no statement found 4 Nov 2026 | | | Amex ACE | no statement found 4 Nov 2026 | | | x402 | no statement found 4 Nov 2026 | | | MPP | no statement found 4 Nov 2026 | | | Link for agents | no statement found 4 Nov 2026 | | | Verifiable Intent | no statement found 4 Nov 2026 | | ## Checks on this vendor's domains | Check | Result | Domain read | Dated | Source | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Ora agent-readiness score (cached) | 43/100 (D) | amazon.com | 3 Nov 2026 | ora.ai | | robots.txt | HTTP 200, 101 user-agent groups | amazon.com | 4 Nov 2026 | amazon.com | | llms.txt | HTTP 404 | amazon.com | 4 Nov 2026 | amazon.com | | UCP profile at /.well-known/ucp.json | HTTP 404 | amazon.com | 4 Nov 2026 | amazon.com | | Cloudflare isitagentready scan | 13/100 (L0 Not Ready) | amazon.com | 5 Nov 2026 | POST /api/scan on isitagentready.com, documented in llms-full.txt | | UCP profile at /.well-known/ucp | HTTP 404 | amazon.com | 5 Nov 2026 | amazon.com | | Homepage fetch at build | HTTP 200 | amazon.com | 5 Nov 2026 | amazon.com | [How each check is read](https://agentreadycheckout.com/vendors#checks) ## What it does not do - Amazon does not let outside shopping agents buy on Amazon.com unless they identify themselves and stop when asked; it blocked Meta's Muse in September 2026. - Amazon does not accept ACP or UCP checkout on Amazon.com in the pages read. ## Related pages on this site - [Amazon](https://agentreadycheckout.com/retailers/amazon), retailer profile - [Amazon Rufus, Alexa for Shopping and Buy for Me](https://agentreadycheckout.com/surfaces/amazon-rufus-and-buy-for-me), agent surface profile - [All retailers](https://agentreadycheckout.com/vendors/by-type/retailer) in the vendors section - [All vendors](https://agentreadycheckout.com/vendors) - [The protocol support matrix](https://agentreadycheckout.com/matrix) ## Sources 1. [amazon.com](https://www.amazon.com), read 5 Nov 2026 2. [Amazon Conditions of Use](https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=508088), read 5 Nov 2026 3. [Amazon Buy for Me](https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/retail/amazon-shopping-app-buy-for-me-brands), read 5 Nov 2026 4. [amazon.com /.well-known/ucp (HTTP 404, observed)](https://www.amazon.com/.well-known/ucp), read 5 Nov 2026 5. [Amazon blocks Meta's Muse agent from shopping on users' behalf](https://siliconangle.com/2026/09/21/amazon-blocks-metas-muse-agent-from-shopping-on-users-behalf/), read 5 Nov 2026. Secondary source 6. [ucp.dev/](https://ucp.dev/), read 5 Nov 2026 7. [amazon.com/robots.txt](https://www.amazon.com/robots.txt), read 4 Nov 2026 8. [Alexa for Shopping](https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/retail/alexa-for-shopping-ai-assistant), read 5 Nov 2026 9. [Ora cached score record for amazon.com](https://ora.ai/api/score/amazon.com?utm_source=agentreadycheckout.com&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=vendor), read 4 Nov 2026 10. [robots.txt of amazon.com](https://amazon.com/robots.txt), read 4 Nov 2026 11. [llms.txt of amazon.com](https://amazon.com/llms.txt), read 4 Nov 2026 12. [UCP profile path on amazon.com](https://amazon.com/.well-known/ucp.json), read 4 Nov 2026 13. [isitagentready scan service documentation (llms-full.txt)](https://isitagentready.com/llms-full.txt), read 5 Nov 2026 Last reviewed 5 Nov 2026 ## Edition Matrix edition of 4 Nov 2026. Reviewed 5 Nov 2026, [13 sources](#sources-h). ## Method [How cells, sources and read dates are defined](https://agentreadycheckout.com/method)