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Stripe Directory helps developers and AI agents find the best external providers for a task and follow the best supported path to provision or use them. Search by keyword phrases to get structured, actionable results.

Search for businesses

Run stripe directory search with one or more keywords:

> stripe directory search "web browsing api" --format compact

                              Stripe      Stripe       Machine
Name           Profile        Apps        Projects     Payments     MCP          Link
Browserbase    @browserbase   ✓           ✓            ✓            ✓            ✓
You.com        @youdotcom     –           –            –            –            ✓
Exa            @exalabs       –           ✓            –            –            ✓
Firecrawl      @firecrawl     ✓           ✓            –            ✓            ✓

Results include structured data—such as provider slugs, MPP endpoints, and app listings—that help you or your agent choose and take the best supported next step to achieve the goal.

What Stripe Directory indexes

• Stripe Apps: Published apps on the Stripe App Marketplace that extend your Stripe Dashboard, including billing tools, analytics, and support integrations.
• Stripe Projects providers: Services available through Stripe Projects that you can provision with a CLI command.
• Machine payments endpoints: Pay-per-call APIs on mpp.dev that support programmatic payment through their documented payment workflow.
• Stripe business network: Businesses and services across the Stripe network.

Set up Stripe Directory in your terminal

Use the Stripe CLI Directory plugin to search for businesses from your terminal.

1. Install or upgrade the Stripe CLI.

2. Install the Directory plugin:

   Command Line

   stripe plugin install directory

If already installed, always make sure you’re running the latest version of the plugin. To upgrade, run stripe plugin upgrade directory.

Use Stripe Directory with AI Agents

Stripe Directory helps AI agents find and evaluate external providers, services, APIs, businesses, and integrations needed to complete a user’s task.

Use Directory when an agent needs to:

• Find, compare, choose, provision, integrate with, pay for, or otherwise engage a provider, vendor, partner, API, business, or software service.
• Set up or integrate an external service, such as infrastructure, storage, hosting, authentication, communications, analytics, or observability.
• Assess a named organization and identify its supported engagement path.
• Find a service that can be provisioned or consumed programmatically.

Directory discovers and evaluates options, then gives the agent structured results and supported routes needed to choose the best next action to complete the task. This can include the appropriate Stripe Projects, Stripe app, machine-payments, or provider workflow to execute that action.

Structured output for agents

Agents can request JSON output when they need to read and act on Directory results programmatically:

stripe directory search "serverless postgres database" --format json

Install skills for your agent

Use one of these options to connect your agent to Stripe Directory.

npx skills add https://docs.stripe.com --skill stripe-directory -g -y

npx skills add https://docs.stripe.com -g -y

Example uses

Integrate with Stripe Projects

If you’re building an application and need a database provider, you can use Stripe Directory to find a supported provider and continue through the documented Stripe Projects flow.

First, search for the service:

stripe directory search "serverless postgres database"

This produces several results, one of which is Neon:

╭──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╮
│ Neon                                                                         │
│ Serverless postgres database                                                 │
├──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ Web               https://stripe.com/@neon                                   │
│                   https://neon.com/                                          │
│                                                                              │
│ Stripe Apps       Neon                                                       │
│                   https://stri.pe/sl/AfLnJtCE                                │
│                                                                              │
│ Provisioning      Provision using                                            │
│                   stripe provision neon --accept-tos --yes                   │
│                                                                              │
│ Machine Payments  —                                                          │
│ MCP               —                                                          │
│ Link supported    —                                                          │
╰──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╯

Because Neon is a Stripe Projects provider, Directory identifies its supported provision target. For an explicit provisioning request, run stripe provision directly with that target:

stripe provision neon --accept-tos --yes

Choose the most appropriate service from the list of options for that provider.

Find a machine-payments service

When a search result shows a Machine Payments endpoint, you or your agent can pay and consume the service immediately.

If you were looking for a service to send a letter and wanted to pay programmatically, you could search for MPP-supported services:

stripe directory search "send post mail" --mpp-supported

This produces results, one of which is PostalForm:

╭──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╮
│ PostalForm                                                                   │
│ PostalForm enables sending real postal mail via agentic payment rails and    │
│ refined interfaces for humans. Global first class, certified, and express    │
│ mailing supported.                                                           │
├──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ Web               https://stripe.com/@postalform                             │
│                   https://postalform.com                                     │
│                                                                              │
│ Stripe Apps       PostalForm                                                 │
│                   https://stri.pe/sl/Vu7zrwpB                                │
│                                                                              │
│ Provisioning      Provision using                                            │
│                   stripe provision postalform --accept-tos --yes             │
│                                                                              │
│ Machine Payments  postalform                                                 │
│                   https://mpp.dev/services#postalform                        │
│                   https://postalform.com/llms.txt                            │
│                   https://postalform.com/agents                              │
│                   Pay using mppx fetch <endpoint>                            │
│                                                                              │
│ MCP               —                                                          │
│ Link supported    —                                                          │
╰──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╯

The result identifies a machine-payments route for using the service. Before paying, review the endpoint and price, choose a payment method, and explicitly approve the payment.

List your company in Stripe Directory

Add yourself to search results

To make your business discoverable in Stripe Directory, set up a public Stripe profile. Your listing appears in search results immediately after you publish your profile.

1. Set up your Stripe profile. You can leave some fields blank, such as phone or address, if you don’t want them visible publicly.
2. Keep the Make your profile private option disabled.

To maximize the likelihood that your business appears in users’ search results, take the following steps:

1. Make sure Stripe can crawl your site: Our search uses your website content to match your business to relevant searches. If your site blocks Stripe crawlers, you make yourself hard to find. Learn how to allow Stripe to crawl your site.
2. Write a clear Stripe profile description
   • Describe what you do in plain language, using the words your customers would actually type. Think about the problem you solve, not how you’d market it. For example, “it helps freelancers send invoices and get paid faster” finds more customers than “a next-generation financial operations platform.”
   • Use entire phrases such as “appointment booking for salons” instead of scattering the words separately.
   • If you offer multiple things, mention all of them—“email marketing, newsletters, and audience analytics” match a wider range of searches than “email.”
3. Make your Stripe profile display name and handle are accurate: If someone searches any of these directly, we’ll show your profile first. Make sure they all match what customers know you as.

View your Directory listing

1. Ensure you’ve installed the Stripe CLI and logged in with the same account that set up your Stripe Profile.
2. Use stripe directory me to view your own Directory listing.

Remove yourself from search results

To remove yourself from search results, enable Make your profile private in your Stripe profile settings.