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title: "Visa Trusted Agent Protocol: definition | Agent Ready Crawlers"
description: "Visa Trusted Agent Protocol: Visa's specification for agents to present a signature with timestamps that merchants verify to tell a credentialed."
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# Visa Trusted Agent Protocol: definition | Agent Ready Crawlers

> Visa Trusted Agent Protocol: Visa's specification for agents to present a signature with timestamps that merchants verify to tell a credentialed.

Source: https://agentreadycrawlers.com/glossary/visa-trusted-agent-protocol
Site: Agent Ready Crawlers
Last reviewed: 2026-11-04

Glossary

# Visa Trusted Agent Protocol

In short

Visa's specification for agents to present a signature with timestamps that merchants verify to tell a credentialed agent from an anonymous bot. The Verification Ledger found no public operator-level registry of agents registered with it. Example: Visa publishes a reference implementation with agent-registry and cdn-proxy folders on GitHub. Related: Let TAP and Agent Pay through and Akamai profile.

## Definition

Visa's specification for agents to present a signature with timestamps that merchants verify to tell a credentialed agent from an anonymous bot.

## Sourced example

Visa publishes a reference implementation with agent-registry and cdn-proxy folders on GitHub. [Source](https://github.com/visa/trusted-agent-protocol), read 2026-11-04.

## How it shows up here

The Verification Ledger found no public operator-level registry of agents registered with it.

-   [Let TAP and Agent Pay through](https://agentreadycrawlers.com/guides/let-tap-and-agent-pay-through/)
-   [Akamai profile](https://agentreadycrawlers.com/vendors/akamai/)

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## Sources

-   [Visa Trusted Agent Protocol (GitHub)](https://github.com/visa/trusted-agent-protocol) read 2026-11-04

Last reviewed 2026-11-04