Anthropic released an open-source blueprint for Claude commerce agents

Building an AI shopping assistant that won't accidentally charge a credit card just got easier.

Anthropic released an open-source blueprint called commerce-agents for building Claude-powered commerce applications. The codebase covers two roles: a customer shopping agent and a back-office merchant agent. To prevent mistakes, merchant writes are staged for human approval, and shopping agents render carts instead of processing payments directly.

Why it matters: Setting up safety controls and system integrations for AI agents usually takes weeks. This blueprint provides working examples across retail, travel, telecom, and entertainment, plus a Claude Code plugin that scaffolds custom agent setups fast.

Try it: Clone anthropics/commerce-agents, install Python 3.11+ and Node 22, and run python scripts/run_demo.py retail to test a local storefront and back-office portal. You can also run /scaffold-commerce-agent in Claude Code to build your own.

Turns out the best AI salesperson still asks for human approval before touching the register.