Stripe Best Practices

openai/stripe-best-practices

Guides Stripe integration decisions — API selection (Checkout Sessions vs PaymentIntents), Connect platform setup (Accounts v2, controller properties), billing/subscriptions, Treasury financial accounts, integration surfaces (Checkout, Payment Element), and migrating from deprecated Stripe APIs. Use when building, modifying, or reviewing any Stripe integration — including accepting payments, building marketplaces, integrating Stripe, processing payments, setting up subscriptions, or creating connected accounts.

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the whole folder, loaded on every use

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instructions only

copies elsewhere

how many repositories repackaged it

4915

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on the repository, not the skill itself

Install

one command, takes just this skill from the repository

npx skills add https://github.com/openai/plugins --skill stripe-best-practices

What comes with it

9 287 bytes besides the instruction

agents/openai.yaml

references/billing.md

references/connect.md

references/payments.md

references/treasury.md

The instruction itself

2 sections, as written by the author

Latest Stripe API version: 2026-02-25.clover. Always use the latest API version and SDK unless the user specifies otherwise.

Integration routing

| Building... | Recommended API | Details |

|---|---|---|

| One-time payments | Checkout Sessions | references/payments.md |

| Custom payment form with embedded UI | Checkout Sessions + Payment Element | references/payments.md |

| Saving a payment method for later | Setup Intents | references/payments.md |

| Connect platform or marketplace | Accounts v2 (/v2/core/accounts) | references/connect.md |

| Subscriptions or recurring billing | Billing APIs + Checkout Sessions | references/billing.md |

| Embedded financial accounts / banking | v2 Financial Accounts | references/treasury.md |

Read the relevant reference file before answering any integration question or writing code.

Key documentation

When the user's request does not clearly fit a single domain above, consult:

Integration Options — Start here when designing any integration.
API Tour — Overview of Stripe's API surface.
Go Live Checklist — Review before launching.

How to use it

Copy the folder

Take openai/stripe-best-practices from the repository into ~/.claude/skills for personal use, or into .claude/skills inside a project.

Check the name does not clash

The agent identifies a skill by the name field in its header. Two skills with the same name cannot sit side by side — one of them will be ignored.