Stripe Link CLI - A CLI that lets AI agents make payments on behalf of users

Stripe Link CLI has been released as a payment tool that helps AI agents complete purchases with user approval.

• It issues one-time-use payment credentials from a Link wallet, so actual card information is never stored.
• Credentials support two types that can be used anywhere: a virtual card (PAN) and a Shared Payment Token (SPT).
• Every spending request is delivered to the user via push notification, and payment only proceeds after the user approves it directly.
• In agent environments, it outputs the LLM-friendly text format toon by default, and also supports json, yaml, md, and jsonl.
• It can be added to .mcp.json for local integration as an MCP server.
• When --output-file is used, card information is written only to a local file with 0600 permissions, while only masked information appears on stdout.
• The spend request flow is create → request approval → approved; context must be at least 100 characters, and amount is capped at 50,000 cents ($500).
• At merchants that support MPP, payment is made via mpp pay, and since SPT is single-use, a new request must be created if it fails.
• A test mode using the test card 4242424242424242 is also provided via the --test flag.
• Polling must terminate in the approved, denied, expired, or canceled state, and a timeout will abort abnormally via POLLING_TIMEOUT to prevent mishandling of incomplete requests.
• It is currently only available for US Link accounts, and is licensed under MIT.