The whole agent path, graded

Find out if any legstops an agent purchase.

Mark five stages from finding your store to a confirmed order. The relay takes the weakest stage as the headline, because a path is only as open as its weakest leg, and where a stage is short, it names that stage and where to fix it.

It grades your own marks about your own store. It does not visit your site, test a live checkout, contact any agent, or predict what any agent or platform will do.

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Five deliverables · runnable
Relay grading engine (Python)
runnable
Workbook that reproduces it
.xlsx
Fix-It Runbook
.docx
Reading Your Relay
.docx
Worked sample + config
.csv
Verdicts
OPEN AS DESCRIBED · WEAK LEG · STALLED
01.The Problem

A store can pass four checks and still lose the sale at the fifth.

One leg

is enough. An agent that is found, understands the catalog and is permitted still leaves if checkout needs a step only a person can pass.

The average lies

A healthy mean can sit on top of one stage near zero. The path is only as open as that stage, so the relay headlines the minimum.

Five stages

run from being found to a confirmed order. Single-stage tools grade one of them. Nobody grades the handoffs between stages, and that is where the path breaks.

02.See It Work

Mark five stages. The weakest leg sets the verdict, and where it is short, the relay names it.

Five stages · mark each signal 0–5
1.Discovery

Can an agent reach and read your store at all?

90OPEN AS DESCRIBED
Your robots rules and firewall let the AI crawlers you want fetch product pages
Product name, price and stock appear in the served HTML, without running JavaScript
You have checked that the AI answer engines you care about surface your products
Every product you want found is linked or listed in a sitemap or feed
2.Interpretation

Can an agent understand what you sell and trust it?

80OPEN AS DESCRIBED
A structured product feed or product markup exists and validates
Feed price, stock and title agree with the live page
Identifiers, variants and the attributes buyers ask about are filled in
Shipping, returns and tax rules are stated in text a machine can read
3.Authorizationweakest leg

Have you decided which agents may do what, and can they tell?

35STALLED
You have decided, per operator and per action, what agents may do on your store
Your terms or a published policy state that decision
You have a way to recognize an operator you allow, such as a registered list or a signature check
Actions you allow have limits, such as a value above which a person must confirm
4.Conversion

Can a permitted agent finish the checkout?

60WEAK LEG
Checkout has no step only a person can pass, such as a forced account or a phone code, on the paths you allow
A structured path exists to build a cart and submit an order, not only screen-driven forms
Your payment setup accepts the agent-initiated methods you intend to offer
Bot challenges and rate limits let the agents you allow through checkout
5.Verification

Can both sides show the order happened?

70WEAK LEG
A completed order returns an order ID the agent can read
The order appears in your system of record with the same ID and amount
A declined or failed order returns a readable failure, not a page that looks like success
You can tell which orders came through an agent
Relay verdict
STALLED
relay score (MIN): 35
mean (context): 67.0

Stall gate tripped. A stage at or below 40 stops the path however high the other four score.

Fix this first, your weakest leg
Stage 3: Authorization (35, STALLED)

Fix-It Runbook, section 3: Authorization. It is in the download.

From your own marks · pinned to 2026-10-31 · no AI, no baked-in multiplier · it does not test a live checkout or predict what any agent will do.

Diagram of the Agent Purchase Relay: five stages scored, a stall gate, and a sample path reading STALLED at Authorization 35 with a mean of 67.
Shareable diagram

How the gate works, in one image

The five stages scored and reduced to their minimum, not the mean, with the stall gate and where the weakest leg routes you.

View & embed the full diagram
03.The Mechanic

The relay score is the minimum of the five stage scores. The weakest leg is the headline.

Each stage scores 0–100 as a plain fraction of your four 0–5 marks. The relay score is the MINIMUM, the mean is context only, and ties go to the earliest stage. The stall gate forces STALLED if any stage falls to 40 or below, however high the others score. OPEN AS DESCRIBED needs every stage at 75 or higher. Here is the engine on the shipped sample:

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AGENT PURCHASE RELAY
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STAGE SCORES (0-100, from your own 0-5 marks):
  1. Discovery         90  OPEN AS DESCRIBED
  2. Interpretation    80  OPEN AS DESCRIBED
  3. Authorization     35  STALLED  <- WEAKEST LEG
  4. Conversion        60  WEAK LEG
  5. Verification      70  WEAK LEG

  Relay score (MIN, the headline): 35
  Mean (context only):             67.0
  Thresholds: OPEN >= 75 | STALLED <= 40

VERDICT: STALLED
  stall_gate TRIPPED: a stage at or below the ceiling stops the path
  however high the other four score.

FIX THIS FIRST:
  Stage 3: Authorization (35, STALLED)
  -> Fix-It Runbook, section 3: Authorization

From your own marks. It does not test a live checkout, and it does not
predict what any agent will do.
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04.The Standard

Three operating principles keep the verdict honest.

Your marks, no multiplier

The score is your own marks made legible. No AI scoring, no baked-in lift estimate. The same arithmetic runs in the engine, the workbook, and this page.

The gate can't be averaged away

A stalled stage holds the whole path however strong the rest is, and releases the moment it clears 40. At OPEN AS DESCRIBED the relay names nothing to fix first, because raising a stage cannot move the verdict.

It grades; it does not test

It never visits your site, runs a checkout, or contacts an agent. Where you have not checked a signal, mark it low. A stage you have not looked at is not a stage you can call open.

What ships in the download
  • Agent-Purchase-Relay.xlsx
  • engine/agent_purchase_relay.py
  • engine/config.json
  • engine/sample_relay.csv
  • Fix-It-Runbook.docx
  • Reading-Your-Relay.docx
  • README.md
  • Welcome.pdf
  • RedHub-LICENSE.txt
05.What This Is, And Isn't

A grade of your own marks about your own store, not a test of any agent.

It is
  • A five-stage scorer that, where a stage is short, finds the weakest leg.
  • A grade of the whole path. The Product-Feed Readiness Gate grades Interpretation only, and the crawler and bot kits cover Discovery and access.
  • Deterministic and offline, the same math in three places.
  • A re-runnable check you repeat after each fix.
It isn't
  • A crawler, a checkout test, or a connection to any agent or platform.
  • A prediction of what any agent will do, or a promise of placement, purchase or acceptance.
  • A statement of what you must permit or block. Authorization grades your own decision and posture.
  • Legal or security advice. It is operating hygiene.

Scope: grades marks you enter about your own store. It visits nothing, tests no live checkout, contacts no agent, and guarantees no placement, purchase or acceptance. As of October 31, 2026, agent checkout rails are pilots and previews, so the relay grades your readiness, not a rail. Not legal advice.

06.Who It's For

Merchants who want to know which stage of the agent path to work on first.

Store owners deciding where to spend the first hour on agent readiness
Ecommerce leads who have fixed one stage and want to see the whole path
Agencies that need a scored, repeatable read on a client's agent path
Anyone holding the crawler or feed kits and unsure what comes next
The five stages it scores
1. Discovery

Can an agent reach and read your store at all?

→ AI Crawler Access & Render Audit Kit

2. Interpretation

Can an agent understand what you sell and trust it?

→ Agentic-Commerce Product-Feed Readiness Gate

3. Authorization

Have you decided which agents may do what, and can they tell?

→ Fix-It Runbook, section 3

4. Conversion

Can a permitted agent finish the checkout?

→ Fix-It Runbook, section 4

5. Verification

Can both sides show the order happened?

→ Fix-It Runbook, section 5

08.Common Questions

Direct answers on the headline math, the gate, and the routing.

It grades the whole path an AI agent would take through your store, from finding you to a confirmed order, across five stages: Discovery, Interpretation, Authorization, Conversion and Verification. You enter four 0-5 marks per stage about your own store. It scores each stage, takes the weakest as the headline, and where a stage is short, names it and points to the fix. It does not visit your site, test a live checkout, or contact any agent.

Know which leg is weakest.
Fix that one first.

One purchase, lifetime access, 12 months of updates. Mark five stages, read the verdict, re-run after each fix. $79, once. 30-day refund.

Grades your own marks about your own store. Visits nothing, tests no live checkout, contacts no agent. No placement, purchase or acceptance is guaranteed. Not legal advice.

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