Stripe Trust Flow — Fiat Authorization
The trust layer behind agent-mediated payments at Stripe: the agent submits a shared payment token, the risk engine approves it and fiat clears through the banking rails.
Stripe Agent Toolkit flow: the consumer approves an agent spend, the agent requests a scoped token, passes it to the merchant and the order completes in fiat.
Copy and paste the following FlowZap code into a project in your FlowZap account to see this template diagram.
buyer { # Consumer
n1: circle label:"Start Checkout"
n2: rectangle label:"Approve Agent Spend"
n11: circle label:"Purchase Complete"
n1.handle(right) -> n2.handle(left)
n2.handle(bottom) -> agent.n3.handle(top) [label="Authorize"]
}
agent { # AI Assistant
n3: rectangle label:"Request Scoped Token"
n6: rectangle label:"Pass Token to Merchant"
n10: rectangle label:"Confirm Order"
n3.handle(bottom) -> stripe.n4.handle(top) [label="Get SPT"]
n6.handle(bottom) -> merchant.n7.handle(top) [label="Send Token"]
n10.handle(top) -> buyer.n11.handle(bottom) [label="Done"]
}
stripe { # Stripe Core
n4: rectangle label:"Create Shared Payment Token"
n5: rectangle label:"Run Radar Fraud Checks"
n9: rectangle label:"Approve Fiat Payment"
n4.handle(top) -> agent.n6.handle(bottom) [label="Return SPT"]
n5.handle(right) -> n9.handle(left)
n9.handle(top) -> merchant.n8.handle(bottom) [label="Success"]
}
merchant { # E-commerce Store
n7: rectangle label:"Create PaymentIntent"
n8: rectangle label:"Complete Fiat Order"
n7.handle(bottom) -> stripe.n5.handle(top) [label="Validate SPT"]
n8.handle(top) -> agent.n10.handle(bottom) [label="Order Success"]
}
Install the MCP packagenpm install -g flowzap-mcpMCP documentation
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