{"data":{"context_advisory":{"advisory_url":"/vendor/viator/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":"Viator has two confirmed agent-facing surfaces: a ChatGPT app (and Claude Connector) supporting search and discovery with site-redirect for booking, and a proprietary REST Partner API supporting full transactional booking at merchant tier (partner-gated). No agentic protocol adoption (A2A, MCP, ACP, NLWeb, UCP, WebMCP, etc.) was found across eight protocols checked. Automated scraping is explicitly prohibited by Viator's own published Terms.","recommended_next_action":"Verify whether the confirmed ChatGPT app and Claude Connector integrations expose sufficient booking depth for agent use cases, then assess whether merchant-tier Partner API access can be obtained through a formal partner relationship for full transactional (end-to-end booking) capability.","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":"2026-06-28","last_checked_human_verified":null,"notes":"No evidence found that Viator (viator.com) participates in or supports the Agent2Agent (A2A) protocol. Known A2A launch partners and early adopters include technology companies such as Atlassian, Box, Cohere, Intuit, LangChain, MongoDB, PayPal, Salesforce, SAP, and ServiceNow \u2014 no travel experience or OTA vendors appear in any partner lists found. Viator does operate a human travel agent program (agentcenter.viator.com), but this is an entirely separate, non-technical affiliate/commission program unrelated to A2A.","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":"2026-06-28","last_checked_human_verified":null,"notes":"No evidence found that Viator (viator.com) is a participant, launch partner, or adopter of the Agentic Commerce Protocol. Named launch partners identified in public announcements include URBN brands (Anthropologie, Free People, Urban Outfitters), Coach, Kate Spade, Revolve, Ashley Furniture, Glossier, SKIMS, Spanx, Vuori (via Shopify), PayPal, Salesforce/Agentforce, and Commercetools \u2014 Viator does not appear in any of these lists. No vendor-specific evidence was found linking Viator to ACP.","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":"2026-06-28","last_checked_human_verified":null,"notes":"The sixty named AP2 launch partners (September 2025) and FIDO Alliance co-developers include Mastercard, American Express, PayPal, Adyen, Coinbase, Etsy, Revolut, Salesforce, ServiceNow, Intuit, and others \u2014 Viator does not appear in any published partner list. Viator is a tours-and-activities marketplace (TripAdvisor subsidiary) with no identified presence in the payments or cryptographic-mandate protocol ecosystem where AP2 operates. No vendor-specific evidence of AP2 adoption or evaluation was found.","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":"2026-06-28","last_checked_human_verified":null,"notes":"No official Viator MCP server was found in the official MCP registry, Viator's own developer documentation (docs.viator.com, partnerresources.viator.com), or any Viator-published source. The only MCP-branded results for 'viator' were third-party Apify scraper actors (e.g., piotrv1001/viator-scraper on apify.com/mcp) \u2014 community-built, unsanctioned scrapers, not a Viator-published integration. Viator's documented API surface is a partner REST API requiring account-manager-mediated access, with no MCP layer announced.","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":"2026-06-28","last_checked_human_verified":null,"notes":"No evidence found that Viator participates in MPP. Known launch partners cited across multiple sources include Visa, Mastercard, Shopify, OpenAI, and Lightspark \u2014 Viator does not appear in any of them. As a travel-experiences marketplace (owned by Tripadvisor), Viator has no documented exposure to this protocol, and no vendor-specific statement or deprecation notice exists, so this is not_found rather than confirmed_absent.","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":"2026-06-28","last_checked_human_verified":null,"notes":"No evidence found of Viator implementing or being named as an NLWeb launch partner. The known early NLWeb partners cited in reporting include Cond\u00e9 Nast, Redfin, Eventbrite, and Priceline \u2014 not Viator. Viator's developer-facing surfaces (partner API, affiliate tools) show no NLWeb endpoint exposure. Status is not_found rather than confirmed_absent because no vendor-specific statement or deprecation notice from Viator rules it out; it simply has not appeared.","protocol":"NLWeb","role":null,"sketchiness_rating":"insufficient_data","stability_rating":"insufficient_data","status":"not_found"},{"access_tier":null,"auth":null,"endpoint":null,"last_checked_agentic_scan":"2026-06-28","last_checked_human_verified":null,"notes":"No evidence found that Viator (viator.com) has implemented or announced UCP integration. UCP's known early partners include Shopify, Walmart, Target, Etsy, and lodging-focused expansions via Google's hotel UCP initiative; Viator is not named among them. A Skift newsletter noted Tripadvisor's strategic interest in Viator's experiences market, but this is investor context, not a UCP partnership claim. Chose not_found rather than confirmed_absent because no Viator-specific statement or deprecation notice was found \u2014 the absence is simply unconfirmed.","protocol":"UCP","role":null,"sketchiness_rating":"insufficient_data","stability_rating":"insufficient_data","status":"not_found"},{"access_tier":null,"auth":null,"endpoint":null,"last_checked_agentic_scan":"2026-06-28","last_checked_human_verified":null,"notes":"No evidence of Viator implementing WebMCP was found. Named early adopters in available coverage include Thumbtack (via OpenAI/Anthropic partnerships) and Angi (via Amazon Alexa+), but Viator does not appear in any launch partner list or WebMCP adoption coverage. Viator's publicly documented agent-facing surface remains its Partner API (REST-based), with no indication of browser-layer tool declaration via window.AICommands.","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":null,"last_checked_human_verified":null,"notes":"No usable finding available for this protocol (no legitimate scan available within the candidate window).","protocol":"x402","role":null,"sketchiness_rating":"insufficient_data","stability_rating":"insufficient_data","status":"unable_to_verify"},{"access_tier":"open","auth":{"type":"OAuth-style 'Connect' authorization flow, consistent with the standard ChatGPT Apps SDK connection pattern"},"endpoint":{"docs_url":null,"publicly_callable":true},"last_checked_agentic_scan":"2026-06-28","last_checked_human_verified":null,"notes":"Tom's Guide journalists tested the Viator ChatGPT app directly and confirmed it pulls live data from Viator's database (tours, ratings, pricing), establishing it as a distinct app from the separately launched Tripadvisor ChatGPT app. Viator also appears independently in Claude's Connectors directory for tours and experiences. No Viator-published documentation page for the ChatGPT app was located, so no docs_url is cited.","protocol":"openai_apps_sdk","role":"Tour, activity, and experience search and discovery: the Viator ChatGPT app queries Viator's live inventory and returns results with star ratings, review counts, durations, and pricing directly within chat. Booking itself redirects to Viator's site. No evidence of full in-chat checkout.","sketchiness_rating":"clean","stability_rating":"new","status":"confirmed_present"},{"access_tier":"partner_only","auth":{"type":"API key provisioned by Viator, passed per-request"},"endpoint":{"docs_url":"https://docs.viator.com/partner-api/technical/","publicly_callable":false},"last_checked_agentic_scan":"2026-06-28","last_checked_human_verified":null,"notes":"Viator publishes a full technical reference at docs.viator.com/partner-api/technical/ covering both merchant and affiliate partner tiers. Merchant-tier access (full transactional endpoints) requires a formal partner relationship; basic affiliate access does not require pre-authorization. A separate affiliate-specific reference exists at docs.viator.com/partner-api/affiliate/technical/.","protocol":"proprietary","role":"Demand-side distribution API for travel commerce partners: merchant-tier partners get full search, content, and booking/transactional endpoints (operating as merchant of record); affiliate/VBA-tier partners get content and search endpoints only, with bookings redirected to Viator's own site. Covers tours and experiences product catalog, availability, pricing, and (for merchant tier) end-to-end booking lifecycle.","sketchiness_rating":"clean","stability_rating":"new","status":"confirmed_present"},{"access_tier":"partner_only","auth":{"type":"Mutual API key authentication \u2014 both Viator and the supplier generate API keys used to authenticate requests in each direction"},"endpoint":{"docs_url":"https://docs.viator.com/supplier-api/technical/","publicly_callable":false},"last_checked_agentic_scan":"2026-06-28","last_checked_human_verified":null,"notes":"Documented at docs.viator.com/supplier-api/technical/; Viator provisions a Supplier ID and API key during a project initiation phase, indicating a managed onboarding process rather than self-serve access. This is a distinct supply-side interface from the partner/distribution API, targeting operators who want to connect their own reservation systems directly to Viator inventory management.","protocol":"proprietary","role":"Supply-side reservation system integration API for experience operators: enables operators' reservation/inventory systems to push availability, capacity, and booking confirmations to Viator, and receive booking notifications from Viator. Covers real-time inventory mapping, tour list synchronization, and booking event callbacks.","sketchiness_rating":"clean","stability_rating":"new","status":"confirmed_present"},{"access_tier":null,"auth":null,"endpoint":null,"last_checked_agentic_scan":"2026-06-28","last_checked_human_verified":null,"notes":"Direct HTTP checks for all standard self-declaration paths on viator.com (including /llms.txt, /AGENTS.md, /agents.md, /.well-known/agent, /.well-known/agent-card.json, /.well-known/ai-catalog.json, /agents.txt) returned connection failures (HTTP 000) consistent with the domain blocking automated non-browser requests \u2014 this constitutes an inability to directly verify rather than a confirmed absence. A web search for 'site:viator.com' combined with these filenames returned no results referencing Viator publishing any such files; all results referenced generic ecommerce or third-party guidance. No vendor-specific announcement or documentation indicating Viator has published any agent self-declaration file was found.","protocol":"self_declared_discovery","role":null,"sketchiness_rating":"insufficient_data","stability_rating":"insufficient_data","status":"not_found"}],"record_verification":{"last_checked_agentic_scan":"2026-06-28","last_checked_human_verified":null,"verification_method":"reconciled from up to 3 scans within 60 days, deterministic validation"},"vendor_domain":"viator.com","vendor_id":"viator"},"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_viator_279824777d32","vendor_id":"viator","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_viator_279824777d32&vendor_id=viator&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. 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