What can an AI agent do with
Add, change, and delete customers?
It can create, change, and delete customers in Stripe. It can also read them. A delete is permanent and cancels the customer's active subscriptions.
How to spot it
On a Stripe connection or settings screen, this is Customers: Write.
With it, an agent can
- Create customers
- Update customer details
- Permanently delete customers, which also cancels their active subscriptions
- Read customer details
It cannot, on its own
- It cannot charge customers with this permission alone
What a bad day looks like
It could delete a customer you still bill, which cannot be undone and stops their subscriptions, or overwrite their details with wrong information.
Set it up safer
- Use Customers: Read if it only needs to look people up
- Ask for an approval step before it deletes any customer
Narrower permissions on Stripe:
- Read customers
Customers: Read
Ask the company selling the agent
- Will it ever delete customers? In what cases?
- Is there a log of every customer change it makes?
Source
Checked against Stripe documentation on 2026-09-28. All Stripe permissions →
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