Judge Chesney's March 10 injunction against Perplexity's Comet agent landed on a distinction that will define the next decade of commerce: user permission is not platform authorization. Your agent can act for you. The platform still gets a veto on whether it walks through the door.
Follow that thread forward and agent commerce starts to look less like browsing and more like an OAuth handshake. Agents present credentials, platforms grant scoped access, terms get negotiated before a single transaction fires. The open web never anticipated automated actors that spend money. Now the legal scaffolding is catching up, one injunction at a time.