generated: '2026-07-31'
method: searched
source: https://shop.atherenergy.com/agents.md
scope: >-
  Ather Energy publishes an agent-execution contract for exactly one surface: the UCP /
  MCP shopping service on shop.atherenergy.com. There is no agent access guidance for
  the vehicle, AtherStack or Ather Grid platforms because no API for them is published.
  Every classification below is taken from Ather's own published /agents.md and
  /llms.txt (and the /.well-known/ucp merchant profile), not generated by heuristic —
  which is why method is `searched` rather than `generated`. The contract text is
  Shopify-platform boilerplate served from an Ather-owned host under Ather's merchant
  identity ("Ather Shop", merchant_origin shop.atherenergy.com); it is genuinely
  published by the provider, and that provenance is recorded here rather than smoothed
  over.
summary:
  operations: 5
  by_action_class:
    connected: 1
    acting: 4
  by_consequence:
    read: 1
    write: 3
    physical: 1
  human_in_the_loop: 1
  audience: null
operations:
- operation: search_catalog
  surface: mcp
  action_class: connected
  consequence: read
  scope: catalog:read
  human_in_the_loop: not-required
  audit: optional
  authentication: ucp-agent-profile
  evidence: 'agents.md: "Use search_catalog to find products matching the buyer''s intent"'
- operation: create_cart
  surface: mcp
  action_class: acting
  consequence: write
  scope: cart:write
  human_in_the_loop: not-required
  audit: recommended
  authentication: ucp-agent-profile
  evidence: 'agents.md: "Use create_cart to add desired items"'
- operation: create_checkout
  surface: mcp
  action_class: acting
  consequence: write
  scope: checkout:write
  human_in_the_loop: not-required
  audit: recommended
  authentication: ucp-agent-profile
  evidence: 'agents.md: "Use create_checkout to start the purchase flow"'
- operation: update_checkout
  surface: mcp
  action_class: acting
  consequence: write
  scope: checkout:write
  human_in_the_loop: not-required
  audit: recommended
  authentication: ucp-agent-profile
  evidence: 'agents.md: "Use update_checkout to set shipping address and method"'
- operation: complete_checkout
  surface: mcp
  action_class: acting
  consequence: physical
  scope: checkout:complete
  human_in_the_loop: required
  purpose_required: true
  audit: required
  authentication: ucp-agent-profile
  evidence: >-
    agents.md, verbatim: "Checkout requires human approval. Agents must not complete
    payment without explicit buyer consent." Moves money and dispatches physical goods,
    hence consequence: physical.
platform_rules:
- rule: buyer-approval-invariant
  detail: Payment may never be completed without contemporaneous buyer approval.
- rule: rate-limit-backoff
  detail: The MCP endpoint is rate-limited per IP; agents must back off on HTTP 429.
- rule: buyer-context-required
  detail: Pass context.address_country and context.currency for accurate pricing and availability.
- rule: prefer-managed-skill
  detail: >-
    Agents that cannot obtain contemporaneous buyer approval are directed to install
    https://shop.app/SKILL.md and transact through Shop Pay instead of scripting the
    storefront.
crawler_access:
  source: https://www.atherenergy.com/robots.txt
  named_ai_crawlers_allowed: [GPTBot, ChatGPT-User, Google-Extended, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot]
  named_ai_crawlers_blocked: [CCBot]
  agent_content_manifest: https://www.atherenergy.com/llms.txt
cross_links:
  mcp: mcp/ather-energy-mcp.yml
  conventions: conventions/ather-energy-conventions.yml
x-evidence:
  fetched: '2026-07-31'
  urls:
  - https://shop.atherenergy.com/agents.md
  - https://shop.atherenergy.com/llms.txt
  - https://shop.atherenergy.com/.well-known/ucp
  - https://www.atherenergy.com/robots.txt