Anthropic open-sources Claude commerce agents under Apache 2.0
Two reference agents — shopping and merchant — run on four clouds and scaffold from a Claude Code plugin. Plus: a free medical model on Vercel's gateway.
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Two agents, one Apache-2.0 repo
The blueprint at github.com/anthropics/commerce-agents ships a shopping agent — catalog search, multi-item requests, option comparison, cart building, and order/returns Q&A — plus a merchant agent for sales analytics, inventory alerts, pricing tips, and campaign drafts.
A Claude Code plugin scaffolds it
The bundled commerce-builder plugin scaffolds a new agent or reviews an existing one. Local setup needs only Python 3.11+, Node 22, and an ANTHROPIC_API_KEY — clone it and have a working store bot running this weekend.
Same code, four clouds
The identical implementation deploys on the Claude API, Amazon Bedrock, Microsoft Foundry, or Google Cloud Vertex AI, so you switch deployment targets without rewriting the agent.
Four verticals, real numbers
Reference builds cover retail, travel, telecom, and ticketing. Anthropic reports shopping agents on Claude have driven carts up to 35% larger and shoppers 60% more likely to complete a purchase.
Elsewhere: a free medical model on Vercel
inclusionAI's Ling 3.0 Flash Sante — a 124B-total / ~5.1B-active MoE with a 256K context and function calling — is free on Vercel AI Gateway through Oct 4, tuned for medical reasoning and evidence-based retrieval.