Catalog & data
Product taxonomy
Definition
The hierarchical category structure a catalog is organized under, which agents use to scope what "kind" of product they're reasoning about before checking specific attributes.
Defined in The Agentic Commerce Glossary.
The full guide: Product Taxonomy Design for AI Discovery.
How else it gets framed
The same term carries different emphasis depending on the surface it’s used on. Both readings are correct.
The hierarchical tree of categories and subcategories a catalog is organized into — e.g. Home > Kitchen > Cookware > Stockpots — used for both human navigation and machine-readable classification (via schema.org Category or a mapped GPT id).
Product Taxonomy Design for AI Discovery →Where Product taxonomy comes up
The guides that put this term to work, rather than just defining it.
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