What is agent-commerce-kit?

Agent Commerce Kit is a demo project showing how an AI agent can place real orders against real vendor APIs while keeping every payment locked down. It was scaffolded with a tool called Scaffold Agent, which generated a starting Next.js chat app, a local test blockchain, and an onchain identity for the agent, and commerce features were then added on top. The project combines four pieces. Scaffold Agent produced the base app. A service called 1Claw acts as a vault that holds every sensitive key and card detail, so nothing sensitive sits on disk or is ever shown to the language model itself. The app reads secrets through a wrapper that hides the value everywhere except one narrow point of use. A service called Ampersend sits in front of every payment as a policy and approval layer: the agent holds one signing key and Ampersend holds the other, so a transaction only goes through if Ampersend also signs it within limits set on its dashboard, and it can also issue prepaid Visa cards. A fourth service, Lasso, converts crypto into a Visa card and is used both behind the scenes for Ampersend card issuance and directly if you store your own card details in the vault as a backup payment method. On top of the scaffold, the added code includes a vault client, a driver for the Ampersend command line tool, payment instrument handling, a policy and audit log backed by a small local database, and connectors for a handful of vendors covering things like ordering pizza, booking flights, and sending gift cards. A chat interface lets you type a request such as ordering a pizza, and the agent walks through checking policy, getting approval, and completing the order, with the full history visible on an audit page. Running it locally requires Node.js, a build tool called Just, and a local Ethereum test chain run through Foundry, along with API keys for the vault and Ampersend services, and optionally a card from Lasso and a key for the chat assistant. By default, vendor orders run in a dry run mode that only prints what would happen rather than placing a real order, until you flip specific settings to enable live sandbox ordering.