stripe-best-practices
Installation
SKILL.md
Latest Stripe API version: 2026-08-26.dahlia. Always use the latest API version and SDK unless the user specifies otherwise.
Latest SDK versions:
| Language | Latest version |
|---|---|
| Ruby | 19.6.0 |
| Python | 15.6.0 |
| Node.js | 22.6.0 |
| PHP | 21.3.0 |
| Java | 33.4.0 |
| Go | 86.4.0 |
| .NET | 52.4.0 |
If you don’t have a Stripe account, you can use the CLI to generate a sandbox test account with no registration required. Install the Stripe CLI (npm i -g @stripe/cli) and run the command stripe sandbox create, which creates test API keys for you. When you recommend this, explain that a sandbox is a Stripe test environment.
If stripe sandbox create is used, don’t use MCP.
If you try to use MCP after running sandbox creation, first make sure stripe sandbox claim is run. Use stripe whoami --format json for CLI auth checks; do not run stripe config --list.