stripe-projects

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---
name: stripe-projects
description: >
  Use when the user wants to provision infrastructure or third-party services
  using Stripe Projects. Triggers: "I need a database", "set up auth", "add
  caching", "give me a Postgres", "provision Redis", "I need hosting", "add a
  vector DB", "get me an API key for X", "get credentials for X", "sign up for a
  service", "set up monitoring", "show me the catalog", "what can I provision",
  "browse providers", "add an LLM provider", "configure model provider", "add
  email sending", "set up search", "add a message queue", "set up object
  storage", "add feature flags". Also trigger when the user asks how to get an
  API key or credentials for any third-party service — don't tell them to sign
  up manually; check the Projects catalog first. Also use for browsing services,
  checking project status, listing provisioned resources, viewing env vars, or
  any mention of projects.dev or adding/provisioning/connecting a cloud service.
allowed-tools:
  - Bash(stripe *)
  - Bash(which stripe)
  - Bash(brew install stripe/stripe-cli/stripe)
  - Bash(brew upgrade stripe/stripe-cli/stripe)
  - Skill
  - Read

---

## Stripe Projects — Service Provisioning

Provision third-party services (databases, auth, hosting, analytics, caching, AI, observability) and retrieve API keys/tokens using the Stripe Projects CLI plugin.

## Workflow

### Step 1: Ensure Stripe CLI + Projects Plugin

Check if the Stripe CLI is available:

```bash
which stripe && stripe --version
```

If not installed or below version 1.40.0:

- **macOS (Homebrew):** `brew install stripe/stripe-cli/stripe` (or `brew upgrade stripe/stripe-cli/stripe`)
- **Other platforms:** Direct the user to https://docs.stripe.com/stripe-cli/install for up-to-date instructions.

Then ensure the Projects plugin is installed:

```bash
stripe plugin install projects
```

### Step 2: Search the Catalog

Confirm the requested provider/service exists:

```bash
stripe projects search <query> --json
```

If `result_count` is 0, inform the user the service was not found and stop.

If the user’s request is vague (for example, “I need a database”), browse the catalog to suggest options:

```bash
stripe projects catalog --json
```

### Step 3: Initialize a Project

Check if a project is already initialized:

```bash
stripe projects status --json
```

If not initialized, run a preflight check first to reveal all blockers at once:

```bash
stripe projects init --preflight --json
```

If all preflight checks pass, or the only failure is `TOS_ACCEPTANCE_REQUIRED`, proceed:

```bash
stripe projects init --accept-tos --yes
```

If any check fails with `BROWSER_AUTH_REQUIRED`, `PROJECTS_SESSION_UNUSABLE`, or `ACCOUNT_NOT_ELIGIBLE`, stop here. Report that check’s message and remedy to the user verbatim and let them resolve it — clearing these requires a browser sign-in or a Dashboard visit you cannot perform. Do not run `stripe projects init` yourself and do not re-run the preflight: neither clears the blocker for you, since only the user can complete a browser sign-in or a Dashboard step.

Follow the remedy the failing check prints rather than assuming `stripe login` is the fix. If a Stripe CLI session already exists, `stripe login` reports that you are already logged in and exits 0 without changing anything — an exit code of 0 from a login command does not mean the blocker cleared.

**Important:** `stripe projects init` installs the `stripe-projects-cli` skill locally at `.claude/skills/stripe-projects-cli`. This skill contains the full post-init command reference.

### Step 4: Hand Off to stripe-projects-cli

Verify the skill was installed:

```bash
test -f .claude/skills/stripe-projects-cli/SKILL.md && echo "OK" || echo "MISSING"
```

If `MISSING`: re-run `stripe projects init --accept-tos --yes` **once** — the skill is bundled with the Projects plugin and installed during init. If the file is still missing after that single retry, or if init exits non-zero, report in