# connect-recommend

This skill reads your business from a URL or description and recommends a Stripe Connect configuration with a matching charge pattern. Useful when you're building a marketplace or platform that pays out sellers.

- skill · `type=skill` · Codex, ChatGPT · ★ 7596
- Author: Stripe · official OpenAI repository
- License: not stated · policy=link-only · description only; the file stays with the author
- Source: https://github.com/openai/plugins/tree/HEAD/plugins/stripe/skills/connect-recommend/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-08
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/connect-recommend

## What it does

The skill walks through a fixed sequence: learn the business, scan the project, recommend a configuration and charge pattern, then produce a markdown plan. A company URL or a plain description is enough input — the skill works out the rest. It pulls from reference files: terminology rules, company-researcher instructions, and a decision matrix.

Every decision point is confirmed with numbered options, one question at a time. Low-cost actions — scanning the codebase, reading references, generating the plan — happen without asking. Research findings carry confidence levels: high values get auto-filled, medium ones get a quick confirmation, low ones turn into open questions. If the research flags the business as not needing Connect, the skill offers a standard Stripe integration instead.

One thing to know: the skill covers Connect configuration only. OAuth and international expansion sit outside it, and it points you to Stripe's public docs for those. Fee economics are validated every run, even when the value was auto-filled.

## Requirements
- Works with: Stripe

## Install

### Codex (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add openai/plugins --skill connect-recommend -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/connect-recommend/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Claude Code

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add openai/plugins --skill connect-recommend -a claude-code
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/connect-recommend/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/connect-recommend/

### Cursor

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/connect-recommend/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install openai/plugins connect-recommend
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/connect-recommend/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

**Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/openai/plugins --path plugins/stripe/skills/connect-recommend
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/connect-recommend/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### Claude.ai

**Claude.ai**
- Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/openai/plugins/tree/HEAD/plugins/stripe/skills/connect-recommend/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- pick a Stripe Connect configuration for a marketplace model
- choose a charge pattern for payouts to sellers and providers
- split fee and negative-balance liability between platform and connected account
- set up onboarding and KYC for merchants and vendors
- decide whether Connect is needed at all or a standard Stripe integration fits

## Example prompts
- Here's our services marketplace URL — recommend a Stripe Connect configuration
- We pay freelancers and take a cut of each job, which charge pattern should we use?
- Scan the project and suggest a connected account setup for vendor payouts

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