Agents already shop on the web, but they often use pages and tools originally built for people and search engines. Building a better shopping experience for agents means treating them as first-class shoppers, with product information they can read directly and tools designed for agents to shop.

Today, Vercel Shop , our open source Next.js storefront template for Shopify , is generally available. Teams can launch storefronts optimized for how people, search engines, and agents interact with them.

Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke and Vercel CEO Guillermo Rauch discuss the future of agent commerce at Vercel Ship SF.

Vercel Shop is built on Shopify’s Hydrogen SDK . The SDK gives teams access to the store’s product catalog, cart and order management, payments, and checkout to build custom storefronts. Earlier this year, Vercel and Shopify announced plans to rebuild Hydrogen to work across JavaScript frameworks. Today, the rebuilt SDK is generally available .

Checkouts are ridiculously hard to get right.…