Official AI Skills for Stripe

Official AI Skills for Stripe is Stripe's official set of agent skills — packaged, on-demand instructions that teach AI coding agents how to design, build, and upgrade Stripe integrations correctly and securely. They are maintained by Stripe and synced automatically from Stripe's own documentation, so your agent follows current, authoritative guidance instead of outdated payment-integration patterns.

What is it?

These are Agent Skills published in Stripe's official stripe/ai repository and kept in sync with docs.stripe.com. Each skill is a focused set of instructions your AI agent loads only when a relevant task appears — so when you ask it to "add Stripe Checkout" or "upgrade our Stripe API version," it applies Stripe's recommended approach rather than guessing.

What's included

The collection bundles three official skills:

• stripe-best-practices — Guides core integration decisions: choosing the right API (Checkout Sessions vs PaymentIntents), Stripe Connect platform setup (Accounts v2, controller properties), billing and subscriptions, Treasury financial accounts, integration surfaces (Checkout, Payment Element), migrating off deprecated APIs, and security (API key management, restricted keys, webhook verification, OAuth). Use it whenever you build, modify, or review a Stripe integration — accepting payments, building a marketplace, setting up subscriptions, or creating connected accounts.
• stripe-projects — Provisions third-party services and handles API keys and tokens end to end: checking provider availability, signing up, creating or retrieving credentials, and initializing the project before handing off to your locally installed skills. It can drive the Stripe CLI directly.
• upgrade-stripe — A guide for safely upgrading Stripe API versions and SDKs. Stripe uses date-based API versions (for example 2026-05-27.dahlia); this skill explains backward-compatible versus breaking changes and walks your agent through upgrading server-side SDKs, Stripe.js, and mobile SDKs.

How it works

The skills follow the open Agent Skills format and install with a single command:

npx skills add stripe/ai

Once installed, they load automatically when a relevant task is detected, and work across Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Windsurf, GitHub Copilot, and 40+ other agents. Because they are synced from Stripe's documentation, they stay current as Stripe's APIs evolve.

Who it's for

Developers integrating payments with Stripe — whether you are adding Checkout to a SaaS app, building a marketplace with Connect, setting up subscriptions and billing, or maintaining an existing integration — who use an AI coding agent and want output that matches Stripe's official guidance.

What you can do

• Add Stripe Checkout, the Payment Element, or PaymentIntents the recommended way.
• Build a marketplace or platform with Stripe Connect (Accounts v2).
• Set up subscriptions, billing, and metered usage correctly.
• Handle API keys, restricted keys, and webhooks securely.
• Upgrade your Stripe API version and SDKs without breaking your integration.

Why it matters

Payments are high-stakes: a wrong API choice, a leaked secret key, or an unverified webhook can mean security holes or lost revenue. Most language models were trained on a mix of old Stripe tutorials and deprecated API patterns. These official skills replace that with Stripe's authoritative, continuously-synced guidance — so your agent builds integrations that are secure, current, and correct the first time.

Install the skills

Add Stripe's official skills to your AI coding agent:

npx skills add stripe/ai

This works with Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Windsurf, GitHub Copilot, and 40+ other agents.

Use them

The skills load automatically when relevant. For example:

Add Stripe Checkout to this app
Set up subscriptions with Stripe Billing
Upgrade our Stripe API version to the latest