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FIDO Alliance agentic authentication and payments work

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Verified 2026-10-14. Status as of 2026-10-14. All entries.

Seams: S4

Status

Announced 2026-04-28: an Agentic Authentication Technical Working Group, and work in the Payments Technical Working Group starting from Google (AP2) and Mastercard (Verifiable Intent) contributions.

Relevance

The release says the Payments Technical Working Group is "chaired by members from Mastercard and Visa"; it says contributed, while the AP2 repository says its core specification has been donated to FIDO. For the Agentic Authentication Technical Working Group the release says it is "chaired by members from CVS Health, Google and OpenAI and vice-chaired by members from Amazon, Google and Okta" (read in a browser on 2026-10-14); it names companies, not persons.

Committed next

None declared in the sources read.

Sources

Overlaps

Verifiable Intent, Mastercard Agent Pay, Visa Trusted Agent Protocol (TAP), Agent Payments Protocol (AP2)

Neighbours in the map

Neighbours of FIDO Alliance agentic authentication and payments work in the map Each circle is an entry of the map and links to its page; the colour is the kind of body behind it, a filled circle is a core entry and a dashed circle a context entry. The entry in the middle, with the entries it overlaps and the entries named by the same seams. Overlaps (5)Share a seam (11)Agent Payments Protocol (AP2) (Industry, core)Agent Payments Protocol EMV Agentic Payments Framework for Specifications (draft for public feedback) (Industry, core)EMV Agentic Payments Fr… Mastercard Agent Pay (Industry, core)Mastercard Agent Pay Verifiable Intent (Industry, core)Verifiable Intent Visa Trusted Agent Protocol (TAP) (Industry, core)Visa Trusted Agent Prot… IETF vcon (Virtualized Conversations WG) (IETF, core)IETF vcon S4 Payment HTTP Authentication Scheme (draft-httpauth-payment, Tempo Labs and Stripe) (IETF, context)Payment HTTP Authentica… S4 AAIF Agentic Commerce Working Group (AAIF, core)AAIF Agentic Commerce W… S4 x402 (Linux Foundation, core)x402 S4 Browser vendor positions on WebMCP (WebKit, Mozilla, Chrome, Edge) (Independent, core)Browser vendor position… S4 EMILIA Protocol (individual drafts and open-source gate) (Independent, context)EMILIA Protocol S4 Agentic Commerce Protocol (ACP) (Industry, core)Agentic Commerce Protoc… S4 Personal Agent Consent & Trust Protocol (PACT), published by Decagon with Instinct (Industry, core)Personal Agent Consent… S4 Personal Agent Protocol (PAP, "Poppy"), published by Sierra with Meta (Industry, core)Personal Agent Protocol S4 Shopify, MCP surfaces for buyer agents, developers and merchants (Industry, context)Shopify S4 Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP) (Industry, core)Universal Commerce Prot… S4 FIDO Alliance agentic authe…

Solid lines: overlaps declared by one of the two entries. Dashed lines, coloured by seam: entries named by the same seam (S1 to S4) in the seams note. Every node is a link.

Evidence and coverage

Read
FIDO release of 2026-04-28 in full, read again in a browser on 2026-10-14 (page metadata: published and modified 2026-04-28); blog of 2026-05-26 in full, 2026-10-03, not read again; AP2 CONTRIBUTING.md and docs/index.md, 2026-10-03.
Not read
Working group charters, membership, specification text.
Not found
Not found in pages read, 2026-10-03: AAIF coordination; Visa TAP among contributions.