AP2 v0.2 and Human Not Present Payments: How AI Agents Will Pay on Your Checkout
AP2 v0.2 shipped on April 28, 2026, adding a Human Not Present flow that lets an AI agent execute pre-authorized payments without the buyer present at transaction time. Here is how its three signed Mandates create an audit trail, what HNP unlocks and breaks, and what a merchant should actually do now.