Why it matters
Agents are evolving from calling free APIs to executing real transactions, creating a new challenge: how do we let software spend money autonomously without catastrophic risk? This talk presents Stripe's approach to solving the dual problems of secure credential transmission and making businesses discoverable to agents
My takeaway: Building safe Payment Infrastructure for the autonomous economy — Steve Kaliski, Stripe is an agent-security signal. The practical read is that autonomy, memory, tool permissions, and third-party integrations are the control surface that needs threat modeling and monitoring.