commerce-agents

commerce-agents is Anthropic's reference blueprint for building two things on Claude: a shopping agent you embed for customers, and a merchant agent your staff use to run the back office. It is not a product you install, it is example code (real runnable agents across retail, travel, telecom, and entertainment) that shows how to wire the pieces together. Apache-2.0.

The value is the pattern, not the demo. Each agent is defined once (prompt, skills, tool contracts, approval gates) and runs on the Messages API, the Agent SDK, and Managed Agents. There is a Claude Code plugin that scaffolds a new agent against your own systems. Nothing here places a real order or charges a card; every write is staged until a person approves it.

If you are building commerce agents on Claude, start here instead of from a blank file. It shows the safety scaffolding (the fencing, the staged writes, the approval surface) that you would otherwise learn the hard way. The catch: the code is free but Claude is not. You bring an API key, and cost scales with usage. This is a starting point wired to Anthropic's own stack, not a vendor-neutral framework.