AI Agents For Personal Payments | ClawBuilders.Club

ClawBuilders S1:E4 — The Agentic Commerce Edition 💳 For our next session, ClawBuilders is diving into the future of money. We’re moving past human-to-human commerce and building agents that can actually spend on your behalf. This is an open builder session for up to 80 people, focused on one mission: giving your agent a wallet and watching it research, compare, and execute real purchases. You’ll plug your agent into payment rails and watch it handle a full shopping flow end-to-end: Research: Find the best price on a specific item (our test case: Kombucha Orange Splash 4x Can) Compare: Scan Amazon, grocery apps, and specialty stores to find the best deal. Execute: Confirm the deal with you and then process the payment using Stripe or PayPal. Bring whatever you build with Claude Code, Cursor, ChatGPT, Hermes, OpenClaw — your agent, your rules. What you can build Personal Shopping Assistant: An agent that finds deals and buys them after your YES. Subscription Manager: Audit your SaaS spend and autonomously generate invoices. Smart Splitter: An agent that creates Stripe Payment Links to collect money from friends. Machine-to-Machine Payments: Set up two agents that pay each other for data or compute using stablecoins. The idea is simple Give your agent API access to your payment methods (Test Mode provided). See how far it can go when financial rails meet automation. Tools we’ll be working with All tools have free tiers or sandboxes — sign up before you arrive: Stripe Agent Toolkit (Primary Route) https://github.com/stripe/agent-toolkit (https://github.com/stripe/agent-toolkit) PayPal Developer Sandbox https://developer.paypal.com/dashboard/ (https://developer.paypal.com/dashboard/) Hermes Agent Desktop (Recommended for non-coders) https://hermes-agent.nousresearch.com/desktop (https://hermes-agent.nousresearch.com/desktop) Coinbase AgentKit (For Onchain/Crypto payments) https://github.com/coinbase/agentkit (https://github.com/coinbase/agentkit) Before you arrive Sign up for a Stripe or PayPal developer account. Grab your Secret API Key (sk_test_...) — we will only use Test Mode tonight. That’s it — we’ll handle the rest together. Agenda 6:00 – 6:30 PM: Check-in, food, intros 6:30 – 8:30 PM: Hands-on building 8:30 – 9:00 PM: Demos 9:00 – 9:30 PM: Wind down Food and drinks provided If you’ve been thinking about building with agents that actually have utility in the real world, this is your night. Don't just prompt. Let them pay. 🛸