Agent surfaces: the vendors of this type
In short
Eight agent surfaces are on the list, the assistants and browsers through which a customer's agent meets a business. Six of them state robots.txt rules for their AI visitors, and four state a price for at least one product. Each profile gives the facts with their sources, all read on 5 November 2026.
About this type
An agent surface is a place where a customer's assistant or browser meets a business: it answers questions, books or buys on a person's behalf. Eight of the 8 state full or partial support for at least one tracked standard, and zero state none. Cloudflare's scan returned a score for 7 of 8 domains and Ora had a cached score for 7, both read on 5 November 2026.
Agent surfaces in alphabetical order
| Vendor | Type | What it does | Standards stated | Pricing model | Checks, dated | Last read |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amazon Alexa+ and Buy for Me | Agent surface | Amazon's assistant answers and books through partner services, and its Buy for Me feature buys from brands' own websites inside the Amazon app while the brand handles delivery and returns. | 1 supported: robots-ai-rules | Subscription; Free to shoppers | Cloudflare scan 13 (L0), 5 Nov 2026; Ora score 43 (D), scanned 3 Nov 2026 | 5 Nov 2026 |
| ChatGPT (shopping, search and agent) | Agent surface | OpenAI's assistant answers from the web through its own crawlers, shows products from merchant feeds and the open web, and sends buyers to the merchant's own site or app to pay. | 2 supported: acp, robots-ai-rules | Free to merchants; Auction, per impression or per click | Cloudflare scan: not read (HTTP 403), 5 Nov 2026; Ora score 47 (D), scanned 5 Nov 2026 | 5 Nov 2026 |
| Claude (search, Claude in Chrome and hosted browsing) | Agent surface | Anthropic's assistant reads sites through three robots, acts on pages through the Claude in Chrome extension, and drives a hosted browser that identifies itself with a Claude-Agent token. | 1 supported: robots-ai-rules; partial: web-bot-auth | Included in paid plans | Cloudflare scan 20 (L1), 5 Nov 2026; Ora score 15 (F), scanned 5 Nov 2026 | 5 Nov 2026 |
| Google AI Mode, AI Overviews and Gemini | Agent surface | Google's AI answers in Search and the Gemini app draw on the normal Search index, and through the Universal Commerce Protocol they can take a purchase while the merchant stays merchant of record. | 2 supported: ucp, robots-ai-rules; partial: json-ld | Free to appear; Waitlist | Cloudflare scan 0 (L0), 5 Nov 2026 (may have read a consent or redirect page); Ora score 43 (D), scanned 1 Nov 2026 | 5 Nov 2026 |
| Meta Muse | Agent surface | Meta's personal agent opens its own browser to fill forms, book and buy for a user, pays through Link by Stripe, and reaches sites through a fetcher that may bypass robots.txt. | 0 supported; partial: robots-ai-rules | Free tier with subscriptions | Cloudflare scan 25 (L1), 5 Nov 2026; Ora score 63 (C), scanned 31 Oct 2026 | 5 Nov 2026 |
| Microsoft Copilot, Copilot Checkout and Brand Agents | Agent surface | Microsoft's assistant sells inside the chat through Copilot Checkout using the merchant's own payments and fulfilment, and Brand Agents put a shopping assistant on the merchant's own site. | 1 supported: acp; announced: ucp | No price recorded | Cloudflare scan 20 (L1), 5 Nov 2026; Ora score 49 (C), scanned 2 Oct 2026 | 5 Nov 2026 |
| Opera Neon | Agent surface | Opera's paid agentic browser opens pages, researches and fills forms in the user's logged-in session, and lets outside AI tools drive that session through MCP. | 1 supported: mcp | Subscription | Cloudflare scan 20 (L1), 5 Nov 2026; Ora score: none cached, 5 Nov 2026 | 5 Nov 2026 |
| Perplexity and Comet | Agent surface | Perplexity's answer engine cites and links the pages it reads, and its Comet browser runs an assistant that browses, shops and fills forms in the user's own session. | 0 supported; partial: robots-ai-rules | Free download; Subscription | Cloudflare scan 27 (L1), 5 Nov 2026; Ora score 68 (C), scanned 23 Oct 2026 | 5 Nov 2026 |
Other types
- Readiness scanners5 vendors
- Visibility platforms12 vendors
- Web platforms9 vendors
- Agency types2 vendors
- All vendors on the list36 vendors
Sources
Each profile lists the pages its facts come from; this page arranges them by type.
- Is Your Site Agent-Ready? (Cloudflare, isitagentready.com) (isitagentready.com), read 5 Nov 2026.
- Ora home page (ora.ai), read 5 Nov 2026.
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