
Stripe Agent Toolkit
Stripe's official agent toolkit — MCP server plus SDKs so agents can bill, refund, and manage payments.
About
stripe/agent-toolkit (1.9k stars, MIT) is Stripe's official toolkit for giving AI agents payment capabilities: an MCP server plus SDKs covering billing, refunds, subscriptions, and payment-link flows.
It's young (1.9k stars) but under active development — pushed Oct 2026 — with docs at docs.stripe.com/agents. The stakes here are inherently high: this is real money movement, so the restricted API keys and explicit user-confirmation patterns in the docs aren't optional extras. Treat every payment tool as requiring human approval.
What it can do
- Official Stripe MCP server for payment operations (charges, refunds, subscriptions)
- SDKs alongside the MCP server for framework-native integration
- MIT-licensed, actively developed by Stripe (pushed Oct 2026)
- Docs patterns for restricted keys and confirmation flows
Setup
- Install via npm per the repo README.
- Create a Stripe account and get a restricted API key (never the secret key with full perms).
- Add the MCP server to your client config with the key.
- Follow docs.stripe.com/agents for the payments-specific tool patterns.
- Require explicit human confirmation before any charge/refund tool runs.
Prerequisites
Node.js; a Stripe account; a restricted Stripe API key.
Use cases
Works with
Trust score — 7/10
Scored 7/10 (metrics tier). Official Stripe project, MIT, actively pushed — but young (1.9k stars, no formal releases yet) and operating in the highest-stakes domain possible. The score reflects solid provenance with a mandatory caveat: real-money tools demand restricted keys and human-in-the-loop confirmation, full stop.
★ 1,914 GitHub stars
How the trust score is built
Full methodology →- Adoption · stars/downloads, log-scaled vs peers
- 6.4/10
- Maintenance · recency, releases, issue load
- 6.1/10
- Openness · license + docs
- 10.0/10
- Manual review · sanity read + red-flag check
- 7.0/10
- · 1,914 GitHub stars (log-scaled vs catalog peers)
- · last push 0d ago; 0 releases/12mo; 100 open issues
- · manual review: official Stripe (1.9k stars), actively pushed; young, no formal releases; real-money domain — restricted keys + human confirmation required
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