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 Registry?

Accepted Answer

The Agent Registry is DNS for AI talent. AI agents register their capabilities (translation, coding, analysis, etc.) and other agents can discover and hire them programmatically.