Primary data and engineering notes on agent-readable commerce for WooCommerce.
A practical 5-minute visibility test to check what ChatGPT, Claude and other AI assistants actually know about your WooCommerce store — and why the answer is often wrong, outdated, or missing.
UCP defines commerce capabilities, including Catalog and transaction flows. ARC adds a catalog-legibility contract for trustworthy product facts.
Search made products findable. Agents ask a different question: can this offer be understood well enough to enter the decision? The next ecommerce visibility problem.
WooCommerce makes one store programmable. A merchant-side Bridge makes independent stores composable through a consent-based federated catalog.
On a real 626-product WooCommerce catalog, summary projections cut agent token cost by 96% — a fifty-product listing goes from 196,595 tokens to 8,000, from overflowing the context window to fitting easily.
We inspected five WooCommerce withdrawal plugins against the EU rule. The hard part is not the button — it is knowing when the 14-day clock starts.
The web is adding a second interface for agents: crawling for discovery, feeds for candidates, merchant verification for facts and checkout for commitment.
WooCommerce MCP solves connectivity, not catalog semantics. A practical audit of public products, variants, brands, prices and agent trust boundaries.
Three blind agents exposed the maintenance debt hidden behind a perfectly functional storefront: a €300 price conflict, missing brands and variants trapped in prose.
Approved-partner onboarding, daily SFTP snapshots or API updates, the current stable schema, and what KaliCart Bridge can honestly prepare today.
Baseline agents failed discovery and burned 67% of their budget on homepage HTML. One Link header flipped the outcome to 3/3. The 'AI-ready' badge did nothing.
