Visa Built an Entire API Layer Just for AI Agents

For sixty years, Visa's APIs were built for humans pressing buttons. That changed this year. Visa Intelligent Commerce is a purpose-built platform for AI agents initiating transactions. The key primitive: Agentic Tokens. Your agent gets a credential scoped to a task — not a raw card number: visa.AgenticToken.create — task grocery shopping, spend ceiling 150 dollars, valid until tonight. The token travels with every transaction. Visa validates scope and ceiling at the network level. If the agent tries to buy something outside the task scope, Visa blocks it before it reaches the merchant. One hundred plus partners are already live. Visa predicts millions of consumers will use AI agents for purchases by this holiday season. If you're building agents that handle money and you're still passing around raw card credentials, Visa just made that unacceptable. Agentic Tokens are the replacement. Docs link in bio.