stripe-best-practices agent skill by stripe
Guides Stripe integration decisions across development and test environment planning (separate sandboxes vs the shared test mode sandbox), 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, API key permissions, webhooks, OAuth). Use when planning, building, modifying, testing, or reviewing any Stripe integration, including choosing a development environment, 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.
Source and license
Suede Skill Check: 79/100 · C
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The rubric totals 100 points; published scores are capped at 99. Security scan: not scanned.
Source revision: 24947f1632ee. Report version 4d629e3a32b2. Badge URLs follow the latest listing; save the report to keep this version.
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What to review next
- Boundary clause: 0 of 4 points. 4 when the description says when not to use the skill (“Not for …”, “Do not use …”, “Use … instead”).
- Example request: 0 of 3 points. 3 when the description quotes an example request (3–60 characters in quotation marks).
- Description length: 3 of 5 points. 5 for 150–600 characters; 3 for 100–900; 1 for 50–1,024.
Add declarations and bundled files when they describe the skill’s actual needs. Update the source, then request a fresh review with the changed commit or PR.
| Component | Points earned | Available |
|---|---|---|
| Structural checks | 56 | 56 |
| Description length | 3 | 5 |
| Boundary clause | 0 | 4 |
| Example request | 0 | 3 |
| Instruction depth | 7 | 7 |
| Reference files | 3 | 3 |
| Bundled scripts | 0 | 2 |
| Recent maintenance | 9 | 9 |
| Curated-list citations | 1 | 7 |
| Tool permissions declared | 0 | 2 |
| Compatibility declared | 0 | 2 |
The published score is capped at 99. It measures the published files, documentation and maintenance signals. Security scan: not scanned. This assessment does not include a runtime test or a full installation-dependency review.
Install stripe-best-practices
The skills CLI works with Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and other agents; the other routes copy the folder by hand.
npx skills add https://github.com/stripe/ai/tree/main/skills/stripe-best-practicestmp="$(mktemp -d)"
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/stripe/ai.git "$tmp/repo"
mkdir -p .claude/skills
cp -R "$tmp/repo/"skills/stripe-best-practices .claude/skills/
rm -rf "$tmp"tmp="$(mktemp -d)"
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/stripe/ai.git "$tmp/repo"
mkdir -p .agents/skills
cp -R "$tmp/repo/"skills/stripe-best-practices .agents/skills/
rm -rf "$tmp"For a user-level install, copy the folder to ~/.claude/skills/ (Claude Code) or ~/.agents/skills/ (Codex). Inside Codex, $skill-installer can also fetch a skill from GitHub. New to skills? Read How to install agent skills in Claude Code, Codex and Cursor.
stripe/ai is third-party code. Read SKILL.md and any bundled scripts before you install it.
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stripe-best-practices is listed with 79/100 · C. This badge links to its Suede AI listing. Skills scoring 80–99 add a numeric and a letter quality shield; the largest open points for stripe-best-practices are boundary clause (4), example request (3) and bundled scripts (2). Send your repository and the points you want to raise, then request a fresh review after updating the skill. Publishers: read How to get your agent skill found in search and cited by AI assistants.
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