
Air-Gapped Payments for AI Agents: Stripe Link CLI Secures AI Payments
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Stripe has introduced Link’s wallet for agents and Stripe Issuing for agents to provide secure financial infrastructure for autonomous AI. These tools allow digital assistants to make purchases using one-time-use virtual cards or Shared Payment Tokens without ever seeing a user's actual banking details. The Link CLI serves as a developer interface to manage these transactions, offering features like spend request creation, authentication, and automated polling for approvals. Every transaction requires explicit user authorization through the Link app to ensure human control over AI spending. This ecosystem simplifies agentic commerce by handling complex fund flows and merchant abstractions for developers. Ultimately, these resources aim to build the economic infrastructure necessary for AI agents to participate safely in the global economy.
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