An MCP ecommerce surface connected to a real storefront.
Aly exposes agent-facing commerce resources without replacing the human storefront. MCP, REST, manifests, product pages, and checkout all point at the same store.
MCP belongs beside the catalog, not away from it.
Agent protocol coverage
Tools and pages- MCPEndpoint
- CatalogREST
- Checkoutx402
Expose tools without scraping
Agents can use explicit commerce resources instead of guessing from rendered product pages.
Keep the human web intact
Aly still serves normal pages, checkout flows, custom domains, and SEO surfaces for people.
Connect discovery to action
MCP, UCP, A2A, REST, and x402 routes form a chain from discovery to catalog inspection to transaction.
Agent tools, storefront APIs, and checkout share one store.
Protocol-backed commerce Aly keeps the MCP endpoint tied to storefront products, policies, carts, checkout routes, and human-readable pages so agents and buyers see the same business.
Expose MCP tools and API resources as structured commerce actions.
Keep pages, checkout, payments, and fulfillment as the canonical store.
Watch the storefront system open up.
Aly starts as a public store for people, then exposes the same catalog, checkout, and discovery structure to agents without splitting the business into separate surfaces.
MCP ecommerce questions
Does Aly expose an MCP endpoint?
Yes. Aly exposes an MCP endpoint for API-key and OAuth-based agent use; browser session JWTs are not accepted for MCP.
Is MCP the only agent commerce protocol Aly supports?
No. Aly also exposes UCP, A2A, x402, REST storefront APIs, and discovery manifests alongside normal pages.
Do customers still use normal checkout?
Yes. Aly storefronts remain human-readable ecommerce sites with product pages, carts, checkout, and custom domains.
MCP for ecommerce only works when the store is authoritative.
Agents need explicit product, policy, cart, and checkout resources to transact safely.
Agent requirement
An MCP server should not be a disconnected wrapper around stale commerce data. Aly ties agent tools to the same storefront and checkout surfaces that buyers use.
Aly MCP commerce model
Open MCP endpointOperators need one store record, not a separate protocol mirror to babysit.
Operator requirement