ARC: open benchmark of whether AI agents can buy

Read ARC's agent commerce adoption counts, category and commerce platform rates from saved HTTP checks, including Checkout WebMCP among measured Shopify checkouts, with unknown and not checked separate; buyer approval required. Curated sample, not all e-commerce. No store requests or model calls.

Read ARC's open agent leaderboard: cart success over the fixed ARC-100 v1 test set for each agent path ARC measures (ARC browser shoppers A-E, the UCP path, the storefront MCP path), with n, dates, evidence labels and Wilson 95% intervals, plus unverified outside submissions. Saved results only; no store requests or model calls. CC-BY-4.0.

Read the public ARC Index with no login. Given a brand, a product or store URL, or a category (running shoes, leggings, footwear), return whether agents can reach checkout, the score, rivals Grok named when a real read exists, evidence receipts, and both buy lanes. buy.agent_catalog is a live HTTP check. buy.browser is the browser cart. agents_can_buy is true when the catalog returned a checkout link or a browser shopper added the product to the cart (ARC stops before payment; it is not a completed purchase). The catalog check does not change the score and is not a browser session or any third-party agent product; browser cart results come from ARC browser shoppers A–E. Does not start a scan and does not spend a model call. A Grok fact check is a real model call via API, not the consumer Grok app. Rivals are omitted when that read does not exist. grok_read.status is pending when the answer was cut off and is waiting for a re-check. That is not a fact Grok didn't know.

Can an AI agent buy from this store or check out on this Shopify store? Free real HTTP check of any public homepage or product URL: agent catalog, product, checkout link, UCP profile, Checkout WebMCP (Shopify-only checkoutWebmcp: status, nullable detected, tools, reason; buyer approval required), Shopify WebMCP storefront adapter (used by browser agents; detected in the HTML, not a browser session), blocks, and the fix. No login, model call, payment, or browser scan. Cached per host for 24 hours. A returned link means reach checkout, not a completed purchase.

Latest open ARC dataset snapshot (start with store_answers: one plain answer per store on whether AI agents can find products and get a checkout link): immutable versioned download URLs plus latest/ aliases (CSV and Parquet), row counts, method version and licence (CC-BY-4.0, attribution ARC, arcreport.ai). Reads only.

Find stores where an AI agent can complete checkout for running shoes, beauty, clothing, home goods, or another product need. Reads ARC's directory of real HTTP agent-catalog checks. Returns only stores checked within thirty days whose catalog found a product and returned a checkout link. No purchase completed; availability of your specific item is not guaranteed. Includes checkoutWebmcp (Shopify-only status, nullable detected, tools, reason; buyer approval required) and a webmcp boolean for Shopify storefront adapter detection, not a live browser-agent session. No login, browser scan or model call.

Read free ARC agent facts for a store or product with no login. Returns TypeSafe Jev typed decisions (use-case mention, price clarity, agent-friendly description, cart-blocker suspicion, readiness score) from an HTTP scrape. Not a browser session and not any third-party agent product; ARC's browser cart tests (ARC browser shoppers A–E) are separate. JSON: GET /api/agent-facts?host=

Read saved public Google agentic checkout readiness checks for a store. Free; no new scan or paid calls. Merchant Center feed eligibility cannot be checked from outside. Not Google approval or certification.

List free ARC agent facts by category (beauty, footwear, apparel, …) with no login. Ranked by newest real Jev scores. JSON: GET /api/agent-facts?category=beauty

Free latest saved product data and return/shipping policy check from the store's pages and structured data. Reads history only; no store fetch or model call. A missing result is not a zero.

Read ARC's neutral Protocol Matrix: for UCP, ACP, PAP, WebMCP, MCP and agent payment protocols, how many checked stores declare, validate, answer and transact, with evidence labels (Measured / Inferred / Not measured). Saved checks only; no store requests or model calls. CC-BY-4.0.

Read a public store card and saved brand claim. No outbound fetch or model calls. Brand statements are from the brand and not measured by ARC; claims never change scores.

Submit your agent's run against ARC-100 v1 to ARC's open leaderboard. Free. The run is listed as 'unverified' until ARC re-runs a sample. Format: arc-leaderboard-submission/v1 (see /leaderboard/spec). Runs must stop before payment. Limit 5 per network per day. Same as POST /api/leaderboard/submit.

Add stores to ARC's free, open agent-commerce directory (CC-BY dataset). Pass url for one store or hosts for up to 50. Each new host is validated (live HTTPS, not parked, not redirecting to another brand); accepted hosts are queued for ARC's plain-HTTP rails checks (UCP, WebMCP, MCP, policies, product data) and appear in the dataset with source=submitted. No model calls, no login. Rate limited per caller.

Validate a Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP) business profile against the published UCP JSON Schema (current release) and spec rules: authority binding, https endpoints, orphaned extensions and, for a URL, hosting headers (no redirects, Cache-Control public max-age>=60). Pass url (store host, homepage or profile URL; /.well-known/ucp is added for a homepage) or profile (the JSON). Returns errors, warnings and info, each with a path and the spec section. Free, no login, no model call. Validation is not certification. JSON: GET /api/ucp/validate?url=