Stripe Projects adds new agent integrations, more providers, and custom developer controls (opens in new tab)
Agent traffic now exceeds human internet traffic, driven largely by agents independently building software and integrating APIs. Stripe reports that agents account for nearly 40% of its documentation traffic and 70% of API-resource requests through the Stripe CLI. Stripe Projects is expanding to help agents handle the infrastructure, credentials, services, and operational controls surrounding software development. ## Agent Integrations - Stripe Projects is available as a skill in Hermes, an open-source AI agent from Nous Research. - Hermes can retain context across sessions, allowing it to collaborate on complex projects over days or weeks. - Factory Droids and Warp have integrated the Projects CLI into their coding workflows. ## Expanded Provider Support - Projects now supports 49 providers, adding 16 new integrations. - New providers include: - Metronome for usage-based billing - Wix for storefronts - ClickHouse for LLM observability - Agents can provision applications, billing, storefront, monitoring, and other services without manually navigating provider dashboards. ## Controls for Safe Agent Provisioning Stripe is adding guardrails similar to those used for agent-driven purchases: - **Unified cost visibility:** Developers can view current and historical spending across providers for each project. - **Per-provider spending limits:** Teams can set different caps for services such as AI models, hosting, and databases. - **Named environments:** Isolated credentials can be created for development, staging, production, or custom environments. Agents default to development, reducing the risk of affecting production. - **Platform delegation:** Platforms can provision services for users using scoped credentials and white-labeling, keeping developers inside the platform’s environment. ## Future Direction Stripe plans to extend Projects across the full lifecycle of agent-built software, including operations and security. Planned additions include stronger security primitives for autonomous agents and a data layer that lets providers meter and bill for software created by agents. Stripe’s broader recommendation is to use Projects as an agent-accessible way to provision infrastructure—for example, asking an agent to add a Prisma database.
