Stripe Link Gives Agents Bounded Buying Power

Link turns payments into a permissioned agent capability, but today’s experience is supervised automation rather than full autonomy.

• –One-time cards and shared payment tokens keep raw payment credentials away from agents
• –Mobile approval creates a clear human-control checkpoint for every transaction
• –Traditional virtual cards work across existing web merchants, while tokens support emerging machine-payment protocols
• –Merchant checkout speed and compatibility remain practical bottlenecks
• –Combined with email webhooks and agent routines, payments can become part of event-driven workflows