Launched March 3, 2026
UCP Playground

UCP Playground

Debug, test, and benchmark agentic commerce integrations.

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Developer tool for building and debugging AI shopping agents against live UCP-enabled stores (Shopify, WooCommerce, and more). - Debug console — Full request/response logging with timing (ms), JSON payload inspection, and transport-level tracing across MCP, REST, and Embedded protocols - Schema quality analyzer — Scores tool schemas A-F, catches missing items definitions, absent required fields, untyped parameters, and undescribed properties before they break your agent - Tool inspector — Browse discovered MCP tools, inspect input schemas, invoke manually with a JSON editor, and examine raw responses - Multi-model benchmarking — Run up to 5 LLMs side by side against the same store and prompt, compare token usage, tool call count, duration, and checkout success rate - Session replay with backend event stream — Step through every model call, tool invocation, and response with nanosecond-precision timing. Toggle between chat view and a dark terminal event log - Store audit engine — Automated 4-phase UCP capability scan: manifest discovery, MCP initialize, search probe, and capability detection. Scores performance (TTFB), data quality, and capability coverage - Transport fallback debugging — Watch MCP-to-REST fallback in real time, per-tool. See which calls succeeded via MCP and which fell back, with error codes (-32601, HTTP 4xx/5xx) - Token usage — Prompt/completion token breakdown per turn, per session, and per model across the leaderboard - OAuth flow inspector — Visualize authorization code + PKCE flows, track token lifecycle, inspect scopes and refresh state - Embeddable session replays — Share debug sessions via public URLs or embed as iframes for bug reports and documentation

UCP Playground lets you debug, test, and benchmark AI shopping agents against live UCP-enabled stores.

for
Store builders and AI agent developers integrating with commerce platforms
pricing
free
works withShopifyWooCommerceMCPRESTA2AEmbedded Checkout

Key features

8 features of UCP Playground
  • Debug console — Full request/response logging with timing, JSON inspection and transport-level tracing across MCP, REST and Embedded protocols.
  • Schema quality analyzer — Scores tool schemas A-F and catches missing definitions, required fields and untyped parameters before agents break.
  • Multi-model benchmarking — Run up to 5 LLMs side-by-side on the same store and prompt, comparing token usage, call count, duration and checkout success.
  • Session replay — Nanosecond-precision replay of every model call and tool invocation, viewable as chat or terminal log.
  • Store audit engine — Automated 4-phase UCP capability scan that scores performance, data quality and capability coverage.
  • OAuth flow inspector — Visualizes authorization code and PKCE flows, tracks token lifecycle, scopes and refresh state.
  • Embeddable replays — Share debug sessions via public URLs or embed as iframes for documentation and bug reports.
  • Transport fallback debugging — Shows MCP-to-REST fallback in real time, indicating which calls succeeded via MCP and which fell back.

Use cases

  • Validate an AI shopping agent against a live Shopify store before release
  • Compare performance of Claude, GPT-4o and Gemini on the same checkout flow
  • Integrate automated regression runs into CI pipelines via the REST API
  • Inspect OAuth token handling for a custom checkout integration
  • Benchmark token usage and latency across multiple LLM providers

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UCP Playground FAQ

Do I need to host anything to use UCP Playground?+

No, the cloud runtime runs sessions server-side; a local runtime is announced for future release.

Can I run the harness programmatically?+

Yes, you can run sessions over REST with a bearer token and pipe results into CI or dashboards.

What stores can I test against?+

UCP Playground supports real public UCP storefronts like allbirds.com and kyliecosmetics.com, plus your own builds and localhost.

How many models can I benchmark at once?+

Up to 5 LLMs can be run side-by-side on the same target and prompt.

Is the tool free?+

Yes, it is free to use; signing up unlocks session history and additional features.

Can I share debugging sessions with my team?+

Yes, sessions can be shared via public URLs or embedded as iframes.

Summarized by DevHunt from ucpplayground.com · Sep 27, 2026. Details may change; check the official site.