What we found.
| What Stripe lists, and what our drives recorded | Products | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Own profile in Stripe Directory | 26 of 201 | 13% |
| Directory profile shows an MCP server | 0 of 26 | 0% |
| Our drive recorded an MCP server | 26 of 26 | 100% |
| Stripe Projects can set it up | 31 of 201 | 15% |
| Needed a person to get in through its own sign-up | 12 of 31 | 39% |
| Machine Payments target opened (28 Oct 2026) | Targets | Share |
|---|---|---|
| An llms.txt page | 27 of 32 | 84% |
| Another page or endpoint | 5 of 32 | 16% |
- Stripe Directory has its own profile for 26 of the 201 products. A profile lists the routes an agent can take: Stripe Projects, Machine Payments, an MCP server, Link or a Stripe App. It doesn't say whether an agent got through them.
- The Directory shows an MCP server for none of those 26. Our drives recorded one for all 26.
- At 27 of the 32 Machine Payments targets the Directory gave on 28 Oct 2026, the link opened an llms.txt page, not a payment request. Our own profile's target was one of them.
What to do.
For product owners
- Make your own sign-up work for an agent too. An agent without the Stripe CLI never sees your Stripe Projects listing.
- Point your Machine Payments action at an endpoint that answers with a payment request, not at a page of docs.
- Add your MCP server to your Stripe profile, so an agent searching the Directory finds it.
For agent builders
- Read a Directory profile as a list of routes to try, then check each one: a Machine Payments link may open a page of docs.
- Before your agent signs up, look up the product's drive record to see whether an agent got in on its own.
Method and limits.
How we tested
- Drives from 1 Oct 2026 to 1 Nov 2026, 201 products.
- On 29 Oct 2026 we searched Stripe Directory for each product by name. A profile counts when its website is the product's own domain.
- A product counts as set up by Stripe Projects when the Stripe Projects catalog lists it as a provider.
- Needed a person: the product's newest drive is at L1 (Needs a person). Our agent couldn't get in on its own through any way the product itself offers.
- On 28 Oct 2026 we opened every Machine Payments target in the profiles our searches returned, once each.
Limits
- Our drives test each product's own ways in. Setting up a product through Stripe Projects isn't part of these counts.
- The 32 Machine Payments targets come from every profile our searches returned, not only products we drove.
- Counts are shown from 5 products.
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