Question 1

What is PennyLane?

Accepted Answer

PennyLane is commerce infrastructure for AI agents. We make any website discoverable and transactable by autonomous AI agents through the Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP).

Question 2

What is UCP (Universal Commerce Protocol)?

Accepted Answer

UCP is an open standard for machine-readable commerce. Websites add a UCP manifest at /.well-known/ucp.json to declare their capabilities, making them discoverable by AI agents.

Question 3

How do I make my site AI-agent accessible?

Accepted Answer

Use our Inspector CLI (npx penny inspect your-site.com) to check compliance, then implement the UCP endpoints. PennyLane can automatically generate UCP wrappers for most e-commerce platforms.

Question 4

What is the Agent Firewall?

Accepted Answer

The Agent Firewall verifies AI agents by cryptographic identity, not just IP address. It rate-limits by agent, absorbs swarm traffic, and prevents inventory scraping while allowing legitimate AI purchases.