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  "dataset": "ucp-weekly",
  "description": "Weekly UCP ecosystem readings: declared agent-readiness against the capabilities an autonomous purchase actually needs.",
  "source": {
    "name": "UCP Checker",
    "url": "https://ucpchecker.com",
    "note": "Ecosystem readings are UCP Checker’s public data, recorded by hand. Conduit does not compute these numbers.",
    "collection": "manual"
  },
  "republishedBy": {
    "name": "Conduit",
    "url": "https://aiconduit.app/research/2026-q3"
  },
  "license": "Cite the source above. Attribution required.",
  "caveats": [
    "Verified merchants fall between 2026-07-27 and 2026-08-03, and AP2 mandate falls between 2026-08-03 and 2026-08-10. Both are upstream corrections, left unsmoothed.",
    "Capability counts published elsewhere in this report are drawn from a wider population than verifiedMerchants and are not a subset of it."
  ],
  "rowCount": 10,
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      "week": "2026-06-29",
      "verifiedMerchants": 9534,
      "domainsMonitored": 11097,
      "ap2Mandate": 5,
      "identityLinking": 16,
      "buyerConsent": 6,
      "embeddedCheckout": 2
    },
    {
      "week": "2026-07-06",
      "verifiedMerchants": 11332,
      "domainsMonitored": 12896,
      "ap2Mandate": 6,
      "identityLinking": 13,
      "buyerConsent": 8,
      "embeddedCheckout": 2
    },
    {
      "week": "2026-07-13",
      "verifiedMerchants": 11959,
      "domainsMonitored": 13761,
      "ap2Mandate": 7,
      "identityLinking": 15,
      "buyerConsent": 8,
      "embeddedCheckout": 1
    },
    {
      "week": "2026-07-20",
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      "domainsMonitored": 14566,
      "ap2Mandate": 7,
      "identityLinking": 15,
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      "embeddedCheckout": 1
    },
    {
      "week": "2026-07-27",
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      "identityLinking": 14,
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      "embeddedCheckout": 1
    },
    {
      "week": "2026-08-03",
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    },
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      "week": "2026-08-10",
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      "ap2Mandate": 8,
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    },
    {
      "week": "2026-08-17",
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      "ap2Mandate": 9,
      "identityLinking": 27,
      "buyerConsent": 9,
      "embeddedCheckout": 1
    },
    {
      "week": "2026-08-24",
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    },
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      "week": "2026-08-31",
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    }
  ]
}