Re:eBay Explicitly Bans AI "Buy for Me" Agents in User Agree...
by bhaviav100 on Tuesday January 27, 2026 @02:30AM
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I’ve been working on a small experimental gateway that sits between agents and customer-facing execution paths and forces decisions through policy + approval before anything irreversible happens.
v2 I just shipped adds:
• risk scoring on drafts
• policy path traces
• approval chain previews
• highlighted spans showing what triggered the block
• admin review endpoints
The motivation is exactly what people are pointing at here: once agents can transact, marketplaces end up banning them unless there’s a way to pause, inspect, and assign responsibility at execution time.
Curious what failure modes you’d want intercepted first if eBay or Amazon ever exposed agent purchase APIs.
v2 I just shipped adds:
• risk scoring on drafts • policy path traces • approval chain previews • highlighted spans showing what triggered the block • admin review endpoints
The motivation is exactly what people are pointing at here: once agents can transact, marketplaces end up banning them unless there’s a way to pause, inspect, and assign responsibility at execution time.
Curious what failure modes you’d want intercepted first if eBay or Amazon ever exposed agent purchase APIs.
https://authority.bhaviavelayudhan.com/v2/console