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Uncategorized 9 min read | Craig DeWitt

The Agentic Commerce Gauntlet: Why AI Agents Fail at Checkout

Why is an agentic commerce transaction still so difficult? Agentic commerce success rates are all over the map. In our own testing at Skyfire, we’ve seen merchants where AI agents successfully complete more than 90% of attempted transactions. At others, success rates hover between 30% and 40%. And at some merchants, agents fail 100% of […]

Agentic Merchant 10 min read | Ankit Agarwal

What an agentic protocol needs to get right

What does an agentic protocol, one that lets AI agents browse, shop and pay for people, need to get right? Here’s my list: thirteen success metrics in four groups, and how KYAPay allows for each. In my last post I argued that the human is the missing signal. A KYAPay token carries it: a signed […]

Uncategorized 8 min read | Craig DeWitt

What does Agentic Identity mean?

What the heck is Agentic Identity? Identity is a very overloaded term. The fundamental problem with how we’re discussing agentic identity is that we’re using the word “identity” to describe very different things. Web Bot Auth, OAuth, the newly announced Personal Agent Protocol (PAP), and Know Your Agent (KYA) are all part of the conversation. […]

Uncategorized 11 min read | Craig DeWitt

What Is the Personal Agent Protocol (PAP), and What Does It Mean for Businesses?

AI agents are increasingly interacting with businesses on behalf of consumers. They’re browsing websites, researching products, accessing accounts, and attempting to complete transactions. But most business digital interfaces weren’t designed for this. Most websites and business systems were built around two types of traffic: humans using browsers and applications accessing APIs. AI agents introduce a […]

Agentic Merchant 14 min read | Ankit Agarwal

The human is the missing signal

Legitimate AI agents get blocked because, to a fraud system, an agent with no human behind it looks like a scalper. This post shows what changes when the human is named, with a demo that runs end to end. Legitimate agents get blocked, and the fraud systems aren’t wrong Legitimate agents get blocked today. Not […]

Uncategorized 4 min read | Craig DeWitt

Your Customers’ AI Agents Are Already Trying to Shop With You

If you’re a large merchant, agentic commerce is no longer a future problem. Your customers’ AI agents are already showing up on your website. Over the last six months, we’ve spent a lot of time working with large merchants on what agentic commerce actually looks like in production. Across those conversations, we’re seeing the same […]

Agentic Merchant 6 min read | Kevin Brown

Your Next Customer Is Going to Be an Agent: Skyfire at Groceryshop 2026

Groceryshop 2026 brought more than 4,000 senior leaders to Las Vegas, including teams from over 1,300 retailers and consumer brands., The conversations were about growth, changing customer behavior, and a question every merchant eventually has to answer: how will our customers want to shop next? This year, on the stage, across the show floor, and […]

Identity Solutions 7 min read | Amir Sarhangi

Agent Access Gateway vs LLM Gateway: What’s the Difference?

TL;DR LLM gateways route model API calls between your app and providers like OpenAI or Anthropic. They handle cost control, fallback, rate limiting, and token-level observability. Agent access gateways verify an agent’s identity and authorize its payments when it acts on third-party sites and APIs across the open web. AI models conflate the two. They […]

Identity Solutions 11 min read | Amir Sarhangi

Best Agent Access Gateway Platforms in 2026: A Comparison

TL;DR An agent access gateway sits between AI agents and the models, tools, and MCP servers they call, handling authentication, routing, and observability for that traffic. The five platforms below solve different slices of the problem. TrueFoundry — best for Kubernetes-native engineering teams wanting one control plane across models, agents, and tools. Ping Identity — […]

Identity Solutions 14 min read | Amir Sarhangi

AI Agent Authorization Flows: How to Choose the Right Authentication Provider

TL;DR AI agent authorization involves two separate problems. Identity auth proves who an agent is, and payment auth proves an agent can spend money. WorkOS, Auth0, Stytch, and Okta solve identity through OAuth, OIDC, and SSO, but none of them handle transactions or spend limits. Skyfire pairs a Know Your Agent (KYA) identity credential with […]

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