{"data":{"context_advisory":{"advisory_url":"/vendor/choicehotels/AgentContext.json","has_advisory":true,"note":"An AgentContext record is available for this vendor containing independently-verified discrepancies and human handoff guidance. Fetch advisory_url before completing any transaction."},"fallback":{"has_agent_interface":"partial","indirect_via":null,"notes":"Choice Hotels has one confirmed agentic interface commitment \u2014 UCP via Google \u2014 but it is not yet publicly callable (waitlist/coming-soon state as of check date). All other protocols (MCP, A2A, ACP, NLWeb, WebMCP, x402, MPP, openai_apps_sdk) returned not_found with no vendor-specific adoption evidence. Choice Hotels' ToS explicitly prohibits automated scraping with no carve-out beyond standard search indexing, making any scrape-based fallback non-viable. The partial rating reflects a real, named, vendor-confirmed integration pathway that is not yet live.","recommended_next_action":"Monitor the Google UCP for Lodging developer page (https://developers.google.com/hotels/ucp) for transition from waitlist to live onboarding; once available, integrate via UCP to search Choice Hotels inventory and complete bookings through Google AI surfaces. No direct agent-callable endpoint exists outside this channel as of 2026-06-25.","scrape_explicitly_prohibited":true},"fleet_confirmed":{"last_evaluated":null,"methodology_version":"v1","status":"insufficient_data","window":"trailing_30_days"},"protocols":[{"access_tier":null,"auth":null,"endpoint":null,"last_checked_agentic_scan":"2026-06-25","last_checked_human_verified":null,"notes":"Choice Hotels announced in April 2026 that it is standardizing on AWS AgentCore for enterprise-wide AI deployment, making it the first major U.S. hospitality provider to do so. AWS AgentCore's platform itself supports A2A (per AWS documentation at https://aws.amazon.com/bedrock/agentcore/faqs/), but all described use cases are internal \u2014 guest discovery, booking recommendations, and franchisee operations \u2014 with no externally callable A2A endpoint or agent card published by choicehotels.com. Choice Hotels is not among the named A2A launch partners (Salesforce, PayPal, Atlassian, etc.), and no vendor-specific statement, developer documentation, or public A2A agent card for choicehotels.com was located; recorded as not_found rather than confirmed_absent because the platform substrate technically supports A2A and external exposure cannot be ruled out definitively.","protocol":"A2A","role":null,"sketchiness_rating":"insufficient_data","stability_rating":"insufficient_data","status":"not_found"},{"access_tier":null,"auth":null,"endpoint":null,"last_checked_agentic_scan":"2026-06-25","last_checked_human_verified":null,"notes":"No evidence that Choice Hotels has adopted or engaged with the Agentic Commerce Protocol (OpenAI/Stripe). Named ACP launch and early-access partners are retail/product merchants \u2014 Etsy, Shopify merchants (Glossier, SKIMS, Vuori), URBN, Coach, Kate Spade \u2014 with no hospitality chains among them. Choice Hotels is publicly confirmed as a partner in Google's UCP hotel-booking expansion (announced Google Marketing Live, May 2026), which is a structurally different protocol. Choice Hotels' own 2026 AI announcements reference AWS AgentCore and Salesforce AgentForce, with no mention of ACP, Stripe, or OpenAI commerce integration. Recorded as not_found rather than confirmed_absent because no vendor-specific statement ruling out ACP was located; absence here reflects a genuine gap in the named partner ecosystem, not a Choice Hotels declaration.","protocol":"ACP","role":null,"sketchiness_rating":"insufficient_data","stability_rating":"insufficient_data","status":"not_found"},{"access_tier":null,"auth":null,"endpoint":null,"last_checked_agentic_scan":"2026-06-25","last_checked_human_verified":null,"notes":"No evidence that Choice Hotels (choicehotels.com) has adopted or is implementing AP2. The named 60+ launch partners from Google's September 2025 announcement and the April 2026 FIDO Alliance donation include Mastercard, American Express, PayPal, Adyen, Coinbase, Etsy, Forter, Intuit, JCB, Revolut, Salesforce, ServiceNow, UnionPay International, and Worldpay; travel-adjacent names cited in coverage are Amadeus, Booking.com, and Trip.com \u2014 Choice Hotels is absent from all of these. Choice Hotels' own 2025\u20132026 AI/agentic announcements (AWS partnership, AgentCore, AgentForce) concern internal operational AI tools, not AP2 payment mandate adoption. No vendor-specific statement confirming or ruling out AP2 was located; recorded as not_found rather than confirmed_absent accordingly.","protocol":"AP2","role":null,"sketchiness_rating":"insufficient_data","stability_rating":"insufficient_data","status":"not_found"},{"access_tier":null,"auth":null,"endpoint":null,"last_checked_agentic_scan":"2026-06-25","last_checked_human_verified":null,"notes":"No Choice Hotels-published MCP server was found in the official MCP registry (registry.modelcontextprotocol.io), on GitHub, or in any vendor announcement. Choice Hotels announced an enterprise AI deployment using AWS AgentCore (which supports MCP internally as an infrastructure layer), but this is AWS's platform \u2014 not an externally callable MCP server published by Choice Hotels. Choice Hotels is also named as a partner in Google's AI Mode hotel booking initiative alongside Marriott, Wyndham, and IHG, but that is a platform-mediated arrangement through Google, not a Choice Hotels MCP endpoint. No vendor-specific MCP documentation, deprecation notice, or server listing was located, so this is recorded as not_found rather than confirmed_absent.","protocol":"MCP","role":null,"sketchiness_rating":"insufficient_data","stability_rating":"insufficient_data","status":"not_found"},{"access_tier":null,"auth":null,"endpoint":null,"last_checked_agentic_scan":"2026-06-25","last_checked_human_verified":null,"notes":"No evidence found that Choice Hotels (choicehotels.com) has implemented or listed itself as an MPP-enabled service. The MPP launch partner list named by Stripe/Tempo includes Browserbase, PostalForm, Prospect Butcher Co., Parallel.ai, and Stripe Climate \u2014 no hospitality or hotel brands appear. The mpp.dev services directory similarly shows no hotel or travel booking entries. Choice Hotels' 2025\u20132026 technology announcements focus on AWS AgentCore, Salesforce AgentForce, and its CHARLIE AI assistant \u2014 no Stripe MPP or Tempo integration mentioned. Recorded as not_found rather than confirmed_absent because no vendor-specific statement of non-adoption was located; MPP simply does not appear in any Choice Hotels documentation or announcement.","protocol":"MPP","role":null,"sketchiness_rating":"insufficient_data","stability_rating":"insufficient_data","status":"not_found"},{"access_tier":null,"auth":null,"endpoint":null,"last_checked_agentic_scan":"2026-06-25","last_checked_human_verified":null,"notes":"No evidence of NLWeb adoption at choicehotels.com. Named NLWeb launch partners and early adopters include TripAdvisor, Shopify, Eventbrite, Hearst/Delish, O'Reilly, Allrecipes, Chicago Public Media, Cond\u00e9 Nast, Redfin, and Priceline \u2014 Choice Hotels is not among them. Choice Hotels' publicly announced AI strategy centers on AWS-based tooling (AgentCore, CHARLIE internal ops agent, RAISE revenue management), with no Microsoft NLWeb or /ask//mcp endpoint involvement found. Recorded as not_found rather than confirmed_absent because no vendor-specific statement explicitly rejecting NLWeb was located.","protocol":"NLWeb","role":null,"sketchiness_rating":"insufficient_data","stability_rating":"insufficient_data","status":"not_found"},{"access_tier":"partner_only","auth":{"type":"OAuth 2.0 with AP2 (Agent Payments Protocol) for payment tokenization, per Google UCP for Lodging spec"},"endpoint":{"docs_url":"https://developers.google.com/hotels/ucp","publicly_callable":false},"last_checked_agentic_scan":"2026-06-25","last_checked_human_verified":null,"notes":"Google's May 19\u201320, 2026 announcements (Google I/O and Google Marketing Live) named Choice Hotels as a named travel partner for UCP's lodging vertical expansion, alongside Booking.com, Expedia, Hilton, Marriott, IHG, Accor, Amadeus, Trip.com, and Wyndham; the Google blog post and hospitalitynet coverage both cite this list as coming from Google directly. As of the check date, the Google UCP for Lodging developer page (https://developers.google.com/hotels/ucp) shows a waitlist rather than live self-serve onboarding, with detailed specs described as 'coming soon,' meaning the integration is announced and partner-committed but not yet publicly callable. Choice Hotels' own May 12, 2026 convention press release (https://media.choicehotels.com/2026-05-12-Choice-Hotels-International-Concludes-70th-Annual-Convention,-Making-More-Possible-for-Franchise-Owners-and-Guests) referenced readiness for agentic commerce but did not name UCP explicitly; vendor-specific confirmation rests on Google's naming of Choice Hotels as a launch partner.","protocol":"UCP","role":"Enables AI agents to search Choice Hotels inventory, compare rates, and complete direct hotel bookings via Google AI surfaces (AI Mode in Search, Gemini) without redirecting users to external sites; Choice Hotels acts as merchant of record and retains guest data.","sketchiness_rating":"clean","stability_rating":"new","status":"confirmed_present"},{"access_tier":null,"auth":null,"endpoint":null,"last_checked_agentic_scan":"2026-06-25","last_checked_human_verified":null,"notes":"No evidence that choicehotels.com has implemented WebMCP. The hotel-chain WebMCP demo referenced in Cloudflare and Google documentation is 'L'Atelier Hotel Chain' \u2014 a fictional Google-built demo, not Choice Hotels. Choice Hotels' 2026 AI announcements (AWS AgentCore partnership, CHARLIE, AgentForce) are all internal/backend-facing agent infrastructure, not browser-layer WebMCP tool exposure. No vendor-specific statement, deprecation notice, or implementation found; recorded as not_found rather than confirmed_absent because no vendor-specific posture statement was located.","protocol":"WebMCP","role":null,"sketchiness_rating":"insufficient_data","stability_rating":"insufficient_data","status":"not_found"},{"access_tier":null,"auth":null,"endpoint":null,"last_checked_agentic_scan":"2026-06-25","last_checked_human_verified":null,"notes":"No evidence found that Choice Hotels (choicehotels.com) has implemented or announced support for the x402 stablecoin micropayment protocol. Searches across Choice Hotels' own domain and broader hospitality/x402 adoption coverage returned no results linking the two. Named x402 early adopters and launch partners include Travala (travel booking), Cloudflare, and various API/data vendors \u2014 Choice Hotels is not among them. Recorded as not_found rather than confirmed_absent because no vendor-specific statement or deprecation notice from Choice Hotels was located; absence of evidence here reflects no vendor-specific evidence found, not a confirmed rejection.","protocol":"x402","role":null,"sketchiness_rating":"insufficient_data","stability_rating":"insufficient_data","status":"not_found"},{"access_tier":null,"auth":null,"endpoint":null,"last_checked_agentic_scan":"2026-06-25","last_checked_human_verified":null,"notes":"No evidence of a Choice Hotels ChatGPT Apps SDK integration. Named ChatGPT app travel partners confirmed across multiple sources include Booking.com, Expedia, TripAdvisor, IHG, Wyndham, Accor, and Hyatt \u2014 Choice Hotels is absent from all such partner lists. Choice Hotels' only documented OpenAI relationship is participation in the ChatGPT advertising pilot (confirmed by CEO Pacious per Hotel Dive), which is a paid placement arrangement, not an Apps SDK integration. A May 2026 Voyages d'Affaires article explicitly contrasted IHG's ChatGPT app launch against Choice Hotels' separate AI-agent tools (Business Direct, EasyBid, CHARLIE, RAISE for SMB/group use), none of which are OpenAI platform apps. Recorded as not_found rather than confirmed_absent because no vendor-specific statement from Choice Hotels explicitly ruling out a future ChatGPT app was located.","protocol":"openai_apps_sdk","role":null,"sketchiness_rating":"insufficient_data","stability_rating":"insufficient_data","status":"not_found"},{"access_tier":null,"auth":null,"endpoint":null,"last_checked_agentic_scan":null,"last_checked_human_verified":null,"notes":"No usable finding available for this protocol (no legitimate scan available within the candidate window).","protocol":"proprietary","role":null,"sketchiness_rating":"insufficient_data","stability_rating":"insufficient_data","status":"unable_to_verify"},{"access_tier":null,"auth":null,"endpoint":null,"last_checked_agentic_scan":"2026-06-25","last_checked_human_verified":null,"notes":"Direct HTTP fetches from the sandbox were blocked (status 000/timeout), so files at choicehotels.com/llms.txt, /agents.md, /.well-known/agent, and /.well-known/ai-plugin.json could not be directly retrieved. Web searches found no indexed or cached copies of any self-declaration file at choicehotels.com or developers.choicehotels.com. Choice Hotels' 2025\u20132026 AI activity (CHARLIE, RAISE, AWS AgentCore, Salesforce AgentForce) is internal/franchisee-facing with no externally published agent discovery file located. No vendor-specific statement or publication of llms.txt, AGENTS.md, or a .well-known agent endpoint was found. Recorded as not_found rather than unable_to_verify because web search \u2014 which does not depend on direct fetch \u2014 also returned nothing, and search results naming similar vendors (Shopify, Booking.com) did not include Choice Hotels.","protocol":"self_declared_discovery","role":null,"sketchiness_rating":"insufficient_data","stability_rating":"insufficient_data","status":"not_found"}],"record_verification":{"last_checked_agentic_scan":"2026-06-25","last_checked_human_verified":null,"verification_method":"reconciled from up to 3 scans within 60 days, deterministic validation"},"vendor_domain":"choicehotels.com","vendor_id":"choicehotels"},"outpost_dispatch":{"field_report_template":{"endpoint_live":false,"friction_detail":{"$comment":"Only include if friction_encountered is true.","behavior_diverged_from_record":false,"required_human_handoff":false,"required_retry":false},"friction_encountered":false,"notes":null,"protocol_attempted":"","response_id":"fbr_choicehotels_8a272623d59f","vendor_id":"choicehotels","workflow_completed":false},"submit_channel":{"fallback_url":"https://www.rolocache.com/agent-tools/v1/field-report","mcp_server_url":"https://www.rolocache.com/mcp/","mcp_tool_name":"report_to_outpost","ping_note":"If you cannot POST or call MCP tools, file a lightweight signal by making a GET request to the populated ping_report_template URL below - replace the placeholders and fetch it.","ping_report_template":"https://www.rolocache.com/agent-tools/v1/ping?response_id=fbr_choicehotels_8a272623d59f&vendor_id=choicehotels&protocol_attempted=__PROTOCOL_ATTEMPTED__&endpoint_live=__TRUE_OR_FALSE__&workflow_completed=__TRUE_OR_FALSE__"},"the_ask":"If you interacted with a vendor using this data, a field report from you is genuinely valuable. Respond by calling report_to_outpost via MCP, or by POSTing to the fallback_url via REST, using the field_report_template for MCP or POST, or the ping_report_template for a GET (see below). Your observation is mission-critical signal that keeps this record accurate for every agent that follows.","why_feedback_matters":"RoloCache records are only as good as their last verification. Real-world outcomes from agents in the field are the highest-quality signal we have. Paying it forward takes one tool call and keeps the record honest for the next agent - which may very well be you."}}