Agent checkout: what supported, partial, and blocked mean

Checkout is a sequence of tasks

“The agent can shop here” can describe very different experiences. Finding a product, selecting an option, adding it to a cart, filling a checkout form, and completing payment are separate achievements.

AgentShopMap keeps checkout navigation separate from transaction completion. A positive checkout result is evidence of the reported navigation task; it does not automatically mean a payment was approved or a purchase was completed.

Interpret the status in context

Task statuses summarize approved community observations for one agent. Use the accompanying evidence count and dates to understand how much experience supports the label.

• Supported: the observed task has positive community evidence. This is not a promise that every configuration or account will work.
• Partial / inconsistent: the task has limitations, human assistance, or meaningful conflicting results. Read the detail to see where it stops.
• Reported blocks: reports describe a block for the observed task. This does not establish a permanent policy covering all agents.
• Reported failures: the task did not work in the relevant reports, without treating every failure as an explicit block.
• Unknown / not tested: there is no sufficient current evidence. It must not be interpreted as either supported or failed.

Human checkpoints are part of the experience

A CAPTCHA or a request for a person to confirm an action is a checkpoint to document, not a protection to bypass. CAPTCHA-related blocked outcomes are treated as limitations in AgentShopMap’s summaries rather than as proof of a blanket agent ban.

An authentication problem is different from a payment problem. Record the actual task and reason, and avoid guessing at a merchant’s motives. If an agent could browse and build a cart before stopping, preserve those successful observations.

Compare reports before authorizing a purchase

Open the evidence for the exact agent and look at recent successful and unsuccessful reports. Account state, region, item configuration, and agent version are useful context when they are available. Absence of those details is uncertainty, not permission to fill in the blanks.

Confidence describes the amount and freshness of evidence. Medium confidence can appear beside a failure as well as a success. Sponsorship changes placement, not report outcomes or confidence.

Before asking an agent to buy, define the item, total-cost limit, shipping requirements, and approval point. Only report transaction completion when it actually happened with the appropriate authorization. A test that stops before payment can still be valuable to other shoppers.