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Guides Stripe integration decisions across API selection (Checkout Sessions vs PaymentIntents), Connect platform setup (Accounts v2, controller properties), billing/subscriptions, tax and registrations (Stripe Tax, automatic_tax, product tax codes), Treasury financial accounts, integration options (Checkout, Payment Element), migrating from deprecated Stripe APIs, and security best practices (API key management, restricted keys, webhooks, OAuth). Use when building, modifying, or reviewing any Stripe integration, including accepting payments, building marketplaces, integrating Stripe, processing payments, setting up subscriptions, collecting sales tax, VAT, or GST, creating connected accounts, or implementing secure key handling.

Use when the user or agent needs to read, search, or look up Stripe documentation or API reference. Prefer this over curl or WebFetch for any docs.stripe.com content.

Use when the user wants to provision infrastructure or third-party services using Stripe Projects. Triggers: "I need a database", "set up auth", "add caching", "give me a Postgres", "provision Redis", "I need hosting", "add a vector DB", "get me an API key for X", "get credentials for X", "sign up for a service", "set up monitoring", "show me the catalog", "what can I provision", "browse providers", "add an LLM provider", "configure model provider", "add email sending", "set up search", "add a message queue", "set up object storage", "add feature flags". Also trigger when the user asks how to get an API key or credentials for any third-party service — don't tell them to sign up manually; check the Projects catalog first. Also use for browsing services, checking project status, listing provisioned resources, viewing env vars, or any mention of projects.dev or adding/provisioning/connecting a cloud service.

This skill should be used when the user asks about Stripe Connect configuration, charge patterns, dashboard access, or how to get started with Connect, is building a marketplace, platform, multi-vendor store, gig platform, or subscription platform, needs to pay out sellers, vendors, or providers, mentions split payments, revenue sharing, multi-party payments, or similar payment distribution concepts, provides a company URL or business description for a recommendation, builds SaaS that routes money between parties (e.g. POS, booking, invoicing — not operational SaaS without payment routing), asks about onboarding or KYC for merchants/sellers/vendors, mentions connected account dashboard or responsibility configurations, or asks about payment flows, white-label payments, or embedded payments.

This skill should be used when the user asks about Stripe Connect configuration, charge patterns, dashboard access, or how to get started with Connect, is building a marketplace, platform, multi-vendor store, gig platform, or subscription platform, needs to pay out sellers, vendors, or providers, mentions split payments, revenue sharing, multi-party payments, or similar payment distribution concepts, provides a company URL or business description for a recommendation, builds SaaS that routes money between parties (e.g. POS, booking, invoicing — not operational SaaS without payment routing), asks about onboarding or KYC for merchants/sellers/vendors, mentions connected account dashboard or responsibility configurations, or asks about payment flows, white-label payments, or embedded payments.

Guide for upgrading Stripe API versions and SDKs

This skill should be used when the user asks about Stripe Connect configuration, charge patterns, dashboard access, or how to get started with Connect, is building a marketplace, platform, multi-vendor store, gig platform, or subscription platform, needs to pay out sellers, vendors, or providers, mentions split payments, revenue sharing, multi-party payments, or similar payment distribution concepts, provides a company URL or business description for a recommendation, builds SaaS that routes money between parties (e.g. POS, booking, invoicing — not operational SaaS without payment routing), asks about onboarding or KYC for merchants/sellers/vendors, mentions connected account dashboard or responsibility configurations, or asks about payment flows, white-label payments, or embedded payments.

Use when the user wants to find businesses, software, service providers, or partners for a specific industry, workflow, pain point, capability, or job to be done. Also use when the agent needs to programmatically purchase or consume a service. Use Stripe Directory to build a short relevant shortlist, even if the user does not mention Stripe Directory explicitly.