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TikTok’s Agent Checkout Enters the Race — Inside the Feed, Not on the Merchant Site
TikTok announced the launch of Shopping Assistant and Buy Direct, two agentic commerce features that integrate product discovery and transaction flows directly within the app's feed. Built using partners like Shopify and Stripe, the system adopts the Universal Commerce Protocol to connect with broader merchant ecosystems. While the technical infrastructure enables streamlined in-feed purchasing, the industry continues to grapple with unresolved merchant liability and a lack of standardized dispute frameworks for AI agent errors.
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