How Does a Bot Ask Permission to Spend Money? Devs Probe Stripe's Agent Payments
patife · x · 2026-09-06
Developer patife raised the key question about Jeff Weinstein's demo of a bot paying via @link: how does a bot request spending permission, and with which payment method? Context: it was a demo of Stripe's agent payment tooling (Link CLI / Stripe's bot) on Czech e-commerce.
The question cuts to the core of agentic commerce — the permission model — which Stripe answers with a customer-controlled wallet and single-use credentials for agents.
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