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Description

Adds an exploratory Gift Extension note for recipient-based gifting flows.

In recipient-based gift shopping, the buyer purchases a product for another
recipient. The protocol difference from ordinary shopping is that recipient
selection can happen before product selection, after product selection, or
during checkout.

The draft focuses on a privacy-preserving shape:

  • business-hosted recipient selection,
  • reuse of continue_url for product-before-recipient handoff,
  • opaque recipient selection tokens,
  • carrying selected recipient state into checkout,
  • no raw friend list, address book, social graph data, or stable recipient
    identifier exposure to platforms or agents,
  • checkout-time validation before payment completion.

This is intentionally not a complete schema PR. It is intended to collect
protocol feedback before schema work:

  1. Is dev.ucp.shopping.gift the right common capability boundary for gift
    shopping flows?
  2. Should v1 remain checkout-only?
  3. Is Checkout continue_url sufficient for product-before-recipient flows,
    and does UCP need a more explicit initiation or return contract for
    recipient-before-product flows?

No JSON schema is added in this PR. The goal is to validate the capability
boundary and flow model before proposing a normative schema.

Refs #449

Category (Required)

  • Core Protocol: Changes to the base communication layer, global context, or breaking refactors. (Requires Technical Council approval)
  • Governance/Contributing: Updates to GOVERNANCE.md, CONTRIBUTING.md, or CODEOWNERS. (Requires Governance Council approval)
  • Capability: New schemas (Discovery, Cart, etc.) or extensions. (Requires Maintainer approval)
  • Documentation: Updates to README, or documentation regarding schema or capabilities. (Requires Maintainer approval)
  • Infrastructure: CI/CD, Linters, or build scripts. (Requires DevOps Maintainer approval)
  • Maintenance: Version bumps, lockfile updates, or minor bug fixes. (Requires DevOps Maintainer approval)
  • SDK: Language-specific SDK updates and releases. (Requires DevOps Maintainer approval)
  • Samples / Conformance: Maintaining samples and the conformance suite. (Requires Maintainer approval)
  • UCP Schema: Changes to the ucp-schema tool (resolver, linter, validator). (Requires Maintainer approval)
  • Community Health (.github): Updates to templates, workflows, or org-level configs. (Requires DevOps Maintainer approval)

Checklist

  • I have followed the Contributing Guide.
  • I have updated the documentation (if applicable).
  • My changes pass all local linting and formatting checks.
  • (For Core/Capability) I have included/updated the relevant JSON schemas.
  • I have regenerated Python Pydantic models by running generate_models.sh under python_sdk.

The schema/model checklist items are not applicable for this docs-only draft.

@seungy0 seungy0 requested review from a team as code owners June 11, 2026 08:12
@seungy0 seungy0 force-pushed the gift-shopping-draft branch 2 times, most recently from 582bf46 to 78f940b Compare June 11, 2026 08:29
@seungy0 seungy0 force-pushed the gift-shopping-draft branch from 78f940b to d3d227e Compare June 11, 2026 08:31
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