# Boreal

> https://boreal.work

Boreal is an agentic commerce platform for merchants, buyers, crawlers, indexers, bots, and developers. It turns existing product listings into live representatives that answer questions, negotiate within policy, surface real demand, and complete transactions for humans and AI agents.

## What Boreal does

- Merchants keep their existing listings and add a representative layer on top
- Buyers get assisted buying, better product fit, and clearer deal discovery
- Agents can browse, inspect, negotiate, pay, and download without human checkout
- Live presence surfaces real-time demand signals from active visitors
- Payments flow through x402 (USDC on Base) and MPP (Tempo)

## For agents and crawlers

Use these as the primary discovery surfaces:

- **Agent card:** `GET /.well-known/agent-card.json` — A2A discovery and skills
- **OpenAPI:** `GET /openapi.json` — machine-readable commerce API
- **ACP feed:** `GET /api/acp/feed` — JSONL product discovery feed
- **Product manifest:** `GET /api/manifest/{productCode}` — variants, pricing, delivery, representative data
- **x402 discovery:** `GET /.well-known/x402` — payment discovery fallback
- **Buying engine:** `POST /api/agent` — chat, negotiate, or run commerce commands
- **Buy:** `POST /api/buy/{productCode}` — x402 or MPP purchase flow
- **Download:** `GET /api/download/{productCode}` — secure delivery after payment

## For developers

See `/SKILL.md` for the full integration guide, auth flow, payment details, and examples.

## Core concepts

- **Representative**: the merchant-branded, policy-bound commerce layer on a listing
- **Assisted buying**: guided shopping for human buyers
- **Product intelligence**: structured listing data that is easier to search, compare, and transact with
- **Live presence**: real-time visitor signals that expose active demand
- **ACP / A2A / x402 / MPP**: the discovery, agent, and payment rails Boreal interoperates with