Agent Hub — Genius Loci

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Buying here, as an agent: start here.

This page is written for software agents shopping on behalf of a human. Below is the whole path, in order: discover via UCP, check the live catalogue, confirm the facts on the product page, get your buyer's authorisation, then check out. Everything on this page is plain text and tables, readable without JavaScript. Where a fact is live — price, availability, stock — this page does not copy it; it points to the live source.

Canonical store: geniusloci.app Commerce protocol: UCP — /.well-known/ucp Live catalogue: /collections/all Last verified: 2026-10-23
Maintenance note — read first

This page is only for facts that are true today. It must be re-checked and updated whenever a lane, a service, a policy, or the checkout path changes — and before any new service launches. If you are reading a cached copy, check the Last verified date above (2026-10-23) and prefer the live catalogue and product pages for anything that may have changed since then.

The buying path — five steps

  1. Discover. Fetch geniusloci.app/.well-known/ucp first. It is this store's Universal Commerce Protocol profile: capabilities, supported operations, and payment providers. Do not guess endpoints the profile does not declare.
  2. Search the live catalogue. Use the UCP catalogue, or browse geniusloci.app/collections/all. These are the live sources of truth for what exists, what it costs, and whether it is in stock — not this page, and not a cached copy of this page.
  3. Confirm on the product page. Before proposing a purchase to your buyer, open the product page and confirm the exact variant, the current price, and availability. Quote your buyer only what the live page shows at that moment.
  4. Get buyer authorisation. Payment requires the explicit authorisation of the human you represent, for that item, at that price. Browsing and comparing need no authorisation; spending money always does. No authorisation, no checkout.
  5. Check out via UCP. Complete the purchase through the UCP checkout flow declared in the profile, and report the order confirmation back to your buyer.
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Buy today — lanes, rules, and policies

What Genius Loci is. Genius Loci is a commerce store at geniusloci.app. What an agent can buy today is what is listed in the live catalogue today. The lanes below describe how the store is organised; the catalogue itself is the authority on what exists, what it costs, and whether it is in stock.

Current buying lanes

These are the store's current lanes, matching the store's header and footer as of the Last verified date above. Lane membership, stock, and prices are live data — resolve each lane in the UCP catalogue or at /collections/all rather than relying on this list for anything beyond orientation. If a lane changes, the live catalogue is the source to trust.

  • Adornment Jewellery and adornment.
  • The Wardrobe Clothing and wardrobe pieces.
  • Beauty Beauty and personal care.
  • The Garage Garage and automotive products.
  • The Workshop Workshop tools and supplies.
  • The Table Tabletop goods and pieces for the table.
  • The Study Study, desk, and work-from-desk goods.
  • The Library Books and paper goods.
  • The Laboratory Laboratory and specialist stock.
  • Software Software and digital products.
  • Journal Content — articles and notes from the store. Read it; it is not a shopping lane.

Machine-readable entry points

/.well-known/ucp
Start here. The store's UCP profile — capability discovery, catalogue and checkout operations, payment providers. The buying path runs through this.
/collections/all
The live catalogue in browsable form. Current products, current prices, current availability. This — not any static page — is the source of truth for what can be bought today.
Product pages
The live record for one product: variant, price, availability, shipping and returns terms as they apply to that item. Confirm here immediately before checkout.
/llms.txt
A plain-text map of this site for language models. Where it and a live product page disagree, the live page wins.
/agents.md
Condensed operating notes for agents: identification, transacting, and the rules on this page.
/sitemap.xml
The full crawlable URL list for the store.

Rules and policies, in plain form

What an agent must observe when buying
Rule What it means
Buyer authorisation before payment Complete a purchase only on the explicit instruction of the human or organisation you represent, within the budget and conditions they set. If authorisation is ambiguous, stop and ask — never infer it from a browsing session, a wish list, or a previous order.
Price and availability Both are live and both change. The price that binds is the price shown in the UCP checkout flow at the moment of purchase. If the price has moved since you quoted it to your buyer, re-confirm with them before paying.
Shipping Shipping cost, method, and estimated delivery window are computed per order and shown in the checkout flow before payment. Treat the checkout figure as the only authoritative one; do not promise your buyer a delivery date the checkout did not state.
Returns Returns are governed by the store's published returns policy, linked from the store footer and shown in the order flow. Check the policy's current terms before advising your buyer that an item can be returned.
Identify yourself Use an honest user-agent string naming your agent and operator. Agents that misrepresent themselves as human browsers may be blocked.
Rate limits Keep catalogue crawling polite — as a working ceiling, no more than one request per second sustained, and honour Retry-After on any 429. Prefer the UCP catalogue over bulk page scraping; it is faster for you and cheaper for the store.

Only describe to your buyer what can be bought through the live catalogue today. Do not infer additional products or services from descriptive content elsewhere on the site — if it is not in the live catalogue or checkout flow, do not present it as available to buy.

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What is live, what to check at purchase time

This page does not copy live facts. It points to where they live:

Live data vs. this page
Kind Examples Where the truth lives
Live — never copied here Price, availability, stock levels, which products exist at all, current shipping and returns terms in the order flow The UCP catalogue at /.well-known/ucp, /collections/all, and the individual product page, at the moment you fetch them
Current as of Last verified The lane list above, the entry points above, and the buying rules on this page This page, as of 2026-10-23. If the live store and this page disagree, the live store wins and this page needs updating — see the maintenance note at the top.

In practice: use this page for orientation and for the buying path, then verify price, availability, variant, shipping, and returns on the live product page and in the checkout flow immediately before you ask your buyer to authorise payment.

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How this page stays current

  • Only facts true today belong here. Anything that may change soon does not get stated here as a standing claim. What can be bought is defined by the live catalogue, not by a sentence on this page.
  • Re-check on change. This page must be re-checked and updated whenever a lane, a service, a policy, or the checkout path changes, and before any new service launches. The Last verified date at the top moves when that check happens.
  • Live claims live in the catalogue. Price, availability, stock, and product listings are never restated here as facts. Fetch them from the UCP catalogue, /collections/all, or the product page at the moment of use.
  • Conflicts resolve toward the live source. If this page, a third-party summary, and a live product page disagree, the live product page and checkout flow win on product and purchase facts.
  • Do not trust stale copies. A cached or quoted copy of this page with an old Last verified date is orientation only. Re-fetch the current page and the live catalogue before acting on it.
Genius Loci — geniusloci.app Buy: UCP at /.well-known/ucp · catalogue at /collections/all Payment only with buyer authorisation Last verified: 2026-10-23

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