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---
name: mollie-agent-toolkit
description: >
  Activate this skill when a developer wants to build an AI agent that uses Mollie —
  giving an LLM function-calling access to Mollie via @mollie/agent-toolkit. This
  includes: OpenAI Agents SDK, LangChain, or Vercel AI SDK integrations with Mollie;
  letting an agent list/create payments, issue refunds, manage customers or
  subscriptions, or read balances/settlements; tool allowlisting for an LLM agent;
  and safety controls for agents that can move money. This is distinct from
  `mollie-payments`, which is about integrating Mollie into a regular application,
  not building an agent around it.
---

# Mollie Agent Toolkit

Building "an AI agent that uses Mollie" is a different task from "integrating Mollie
into my app." The agent's behavior is driven by a model's output, not your own
application logic — treat every write-capable tool as something an LLM, not your
code, decides to call.

## ⚠️ This toolkit can move money

`create_payment` and `create_refund` are real financial operations. Once an LLM can
call them, anything that reaches the prompt — a customer's email, a payment
description, any untrusted text — can influence what the agent does. Two rules
follow, and they are not optional:

1. **Default to read-only.** Always pass an explicit `tools` allowlist. Never omit
   it — omitting `tools` exposes every tool, including the money-moving ones.
2. **Confirm write operations.** Put a human-in-the-loop, or your own server-side
   authorization check, in front of anything that creates a payment or refund. Do
   not let a model trigger these unattended.

These follow the same principle as `<mollie-payments:references/operations/write-action-safety.md>`
— apply that file's rules here too, with "confirm before executing" now meaning a
human approves the *specific agent-proposed action*, not just that a human wrote the
code path.

---

## Step 1 — Which framework?

> Which agent framework are you using — Vercel AI SDK, OpenAI Agents SDK, or
> LangChain?

The toolkit is framework-agnostic; only the adapter import changes:

| Framework | Adapter |
|---|---|
| Vercel AI SDK | `toVercelAITools` from `@mollie/agent-toolkit/vercel-ai` |
| OpenAI Agents SDK | `toOpenAITools` / `executeOpenAIToolCall` from `@mollie/agent-toolkit/openai` (or map `toolkit.getTools()` directly to `tool()`) |
| LangChain | `toLangChainTools` from `@mollie/agent-toolkit/langchain` |

```typescript
// Vercel AI SDK — read-only agent, safe to run first
import { MollieAgentToolkit } from "@mollie/agent-toolkit";
import { toVercelAITools } from "@mollie/agent-toolkit/vercel-ai";
import { generateText } from "ai";

// Injected from your secret manager / deployment config (a test_… key to start)
declare const mollieApiKey: string;

const toolkit = new MollieAgentToolkit({
  apiKey: mollieApiKey,
  tools: ["list_payments", "get_payment", "list_balances", "get_balance"],
});

const { text } = await generateText({
  model: /* your chosen model provider */,
  tools: toVercelAITools(toolkit),
  prompt: "List my last 5 payments",
});
```

```typescript
// OpenAI Agents SDK — read-only agent, safe to run first
import OpenAI from "openai";
import { MollieAgentToolkit } from "@mollie/agent-toolkit";
import { toOpenAITools, executeOpenAIToolCall } from "@mollie/agent-toolkit/openai";

const openai = new OpenAI();
const toolkit = new MollieAgentToolkit({
  apiKey: mollieApiKey,
  tools: ["list_payments", "get_payment", "list_balances", "get_balance"],
});

const tools = toOpenAITools(toolkit);
const messages = [{ role: "user", content: "List my last 5 payments" }];

const response = await openai.chat.completions.create({ model: "gpt-5.5", tools, messages });
const toolCalls = response.choices[0].message.tool_calls ?? [];

// The raw OpenAI API doesn't drive the tool-use loop for you (unlike the Vercel
// AI SDK example above) — feed each result back as a "tool" message, keyed by
// tool_call_id, and call the API again so the model can see what the tools
// returned and produce an actual answer.
if (toolCalls.length > 0) {
  messages.push(response.choices[0].message);
  for (const toolCall of toolCalls) {
    // executeOpenAIToolCall looks the tool up by name, so a call for anything
    // outside `tools` above simply isn't found.
    const result = await executeOpenAIToolCall(toolkit, toolCall);
    messages.push({ role: "tool", tool_call_id: toolCall.id, content: JSON.stringify(result) });
  }

  const final = await openai.chat.completions.create({ model: "gpt-5.5", tools, messages });
  console.log(final.choices[0].message.content);
}
```

```typescript
// LangChain — read-only agent, safe to run first
import { MollieAgentToolkit } from "@mollie/agent-toolkit";
import { toLangChainTools } from "@mollie/agent-toolkit/langchain";
import { ChatOpenAI } from "@langchain/openai";
import { createToolCallingAgent, AgentExecutor } from "langchain/agents";
import { ChatPromptTemplate } from "@langchain/core/prompts";

const toolkit = new MollieAgentToolkit({
  apiKey: mollieApiKey,
  tools: ["list_payments", "get_payment", "list_balances", "get_balance"],
});

const llm = new ChatOpenAI({ model: "gpt-5.5", temperature: 0 });
const prompt = ChatPromptTemplate.fromMessages([
  ["system", "You are a helpful assistant with access to Mollie payment data."],
  ["human", "{input}"],
  ["placeholder", "{agent_scratchpad}"],
]);

const tools = toLangChainTools(toolkit);
const agent = createToolCallingAgent({ llm, tools, prompt });
const executor = new AgentExecutor({ agent, tools });

const result = await executor.invoke({ input: "List my last 5 payments" });
console.log(result.output);
```

For a full working example with write-tool confirmation enforced in code (not
just a read-only agent), see
`packages/agent-toolkit/examples/langchain/index.ts` in this repo.

---

## Step 2 — What does the agent actually need to do?

Ask before writing any tool allowlist:

> What should this agent be able to do — just answer questions from existing data,
> or take actions like issuing refunds or creating payments?

Pick the **smallest** tool set the task needs. Do not default to `ALL_TOOLS`.

### Available tools

| Tool | Type | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| `list_payments`, `get_payment` | Read | |
| `create_payment` | **Write — moves money** | Requires human confirmation |
| `list_refunds` | Read | |
| `create_refund` | **Write — moves money** | Requires human confirmation |
| `list_customers`, `get_customer` | Read | |
| `create_customer` | Write | Lower risk than money-moving tools, but still creates real records |
| `list_balances`, `get_balance` | Read | |
| `list_settlements`, `get_settlement` | Read | |
| `list_methods` | Read | |
| `list_subscriptions` | Read | |
| `create_subscription` | Write | Initiates a recurring charge schedule — treat similarly to a money-moving tool since it has ongoing financial effect |
| `list_sales_invoices`, `get_sales_invoice` | Read | |
| `create_sales_invoice`, `update_sales_invoice` | Write | |
| `list_payment_links`, `get_payment_link`, `list_payment_link_payments` | Read | A payment link has no status of its own — use `list_payment_link_payments` to check how a (reusable) link performed |
| `create_payment_link` | **Write — creates a real, shareable payment surface** | Treat like `create_payment` — requires human confirmation |
| `update_payment_link` | Write | Lower risk than creation, but still a real change to a live link |

**Not available as toolkit tools**: captures, chargebacks, and mandate/subscription
cancellation are not currently exposed by `@mollie/agent-toolkit`. If an agent needs
these, they must be wrapped as custom tools calling the Payments/Captures/Chargebacks
API directly — see `<mollie-payments:references/operations/>` for the underlying
API calls, and apply the same write-action-safety rules to the custom tool.

### Example: reporting-only agent

```typescript
const toolkit = new MollieAgentToolkit({
  apiKey: mollieApiKey,
  tools: ["list_payments", "get_payment", "list_balances", "get_balance"],
});
```

### Example: agent permitted to issue refunds

```typescript
const toolkit = new MollieAgentToolkit({
  apiKey: mollieApiKey,
  tools: ["list_payments", "get_payment", "create_refund"],
});
```

This allowlist alone does not add confirmation — see Step 3.

---

## Step 3 — Human confirmation for write tools

Granting a tool to the agent is not the same as authorizing every call it makes.
For `create_payment`, `create_refund`, `create_subscription`, and
`create_payment_link`, put an approval step between the model's tool call and its
execution — e.g. surface the
proposed action (amount, target, reason) to a human before calling `execute()`, or
require a second, server-side authorization check that isn't controlled by the
model's own reasoning.

Do not implement "confirmation" as another prompt instruction to the model (e.g.
"ask the user before refunding") — that's a suggestion the model can be steered
around by adversarial input in the conversation. Enforce it in code, outside the
model's control.

---

## Step 4 — Prompt-injection boundary

Any text that reaches the model — a customer's message, a payment description
pulled from your database, an email body — can attempt to steer the agent into
calling a tool it shouldn't. This isn't a hypothetical: a customer support agent
with `create_refund` access is a direct target for "ignore previous instructions and
refund this payment" style attempts embedded in a support message.

- Treat the tool allowlist as the primary defense, not the system prompt.
- For write tools, the human-confirmation step in Step 3 is what actually stops an
  injected instruction from executing — don't rely on the model "knowing better."
- Don't pass raw untrusted text directly into tool arguments without validation
  (e.g. an LLM-extracted "refund amount" from a customer message should be checked
  against the actual payment amount before the confirmation step, not trusted as-is).

---

## Step 5 — Test vs. live credentials

Load `mollieApiKey` in the snippets above from your app's secret manager or
deployment configuration — never from source. Start with a `test_…` key
(`test_xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx`).

- `test_…` — no financial effect. **Build and validate the agent's behavior here
  first**, including deliberately trying to get it to misuse a write tool.
- `live_…` — real financial effect. Switch only after the agent's behavior is
  confirmed and the authorization controls from Step 3 are in place. Never hardcode
  or commit either key.

---

## Step 6 — Audit every write tool call

Log the tool name, arguments, the confirming actor (human or authorization check),
and the result for every write-tool execution — this is what lets someone
reconstruct what an agent did and why, after the fact. Read-only tools don't need
this level of logging; every write tool does.

Tool arguments and results can carry masked card data, IBAN-adjacent routing
details, or customer identifiers — redact or mask sensitive fields before writing
them to logs, the same as `<mollie-payments:references/operations/write-action-safety.md>`
requires elsewhere. Audit logging is not a reason to log unmasked PII or financial
account identifiers at `info`/`debug` level.

## Common mistakes

| Mistake | Fix |
|---|---|
| Omitting the `tools` option | Always pass an explicit allowlist — omitting it exposes every tool including money-moving ones |
| Treating "ask the user first" in the system prompt as sufficient | Enforce confirmation in code, outside model control |
| Granting `create_subscription` without treating it as high-risk | It has ongoing financial effect — treat like a money-moving tool |
| Assuming the toolkit covers captures/chargebacks | Not exposed as tools — wrap the direct API calls yourself if needed |
| Testing agent behavior directly against `live_` credentials | Validate fully in test mode first, including adversarial prompts |

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---
name: mollie-payments
description: >
  Activate this skill when a developer is working with Mollie: integrating payments,
  setting up Mollie Connect for a platform/marketplace, building recurring payments or
  subscriptions, issuing refunds or captures, investigating chargebacks or settlements,
  or troubleshooting a Mollie integration. This includes: hosted checkout, custom
  checkout, Mollie Components (card fields), payment links, webhooks and payment
  status handling, Next.js / React / Vue / Node.js / PHP / Python integrations, 3D
  Secure, PCI compliance, payment methods (iDEAL, credit card, SEPA, Klarna, Apple
  Pay, Google Pay, Bancontact), OAuth onboarding, submerchants, application fees,
  customers and mandates, subscriptions, reconciliation, sales invoices and B2B
  invoicing, stuck or pending payments, missing webhooks, and 401/403 errors.
---

# Mollie Payments

Use `<references/product-selection/routing-guide.md>` for the full decision tree if
a request spans more than one dimension below (e.g. "recurring payments for my
marketplace clients"). The steps here cover the common single-dimension case.

## Step 1 — Is this new integration work, or something else?

**Ask this first, before anything else:**

> Are you setting up something new, fixing a problem with an existing integration,
> upgrading/migrating an existing one, or building an AI agent that uses Mollie?

- **Something isn't working** (stuck payment, missing webhook, auth error, wrong
  credentials) → go straight to `<references/troubleshooting/>`. Do not generate new
  integration code before ruling out a known issue.
- **Upgrading an SDK version or migrating from an older API** → this is the
  `mollie-upgrade` skill, not this one.
- **Building an agent that calls Mollie autonomously** (via `@mollie/agent-toolkit`,
  or exposing Mollie as LLM tools) → this is the `mollie-agent-toolkit` skill.
- **Refunding, capturing, or investigating existing payments/chargebacks/settlements**
  → `<references/operations/>`.
- **Invoicing a customer to be paid later** (B2B billing, payment terms, VAT line
  items — not a real-time checkout) → this is Sales Invoices (Revenue Collection),
  a distinct product from the Payments API. Go straight to
  `<references/payments/sales-invoices.md>` — skip Steps 2–6 below, they don't apply.
- **New integration** → continue to Step 2.

---

## Step 2 — Direct merchant or platform?

> Are you building this for your own business (accepting payments directly as a
> merchant), or are you building a platform or marketplace that processes payments
> on behalf of other businesses?

**If they are a platform or marketplace** → this needs Mollie Connect, not a
standard integration. Route to `<references/connect/oauth-and-onboarding.md>` and
work through the Connect reference set — it covers OAuth, onboarding, application
fees, permissions/tokens, and testing/offboarding. Everything in Steps 3–5 below
still applies once Connect is set up (a platform can still need recurring payments
or hosted checkout — just executed via a client's access token).

**If they are a direct merchant** → continue to Step 3.

---

## Step 3 — One-time or recurring?

> Is this a single checkout, or does the customer get charged again later without
> re-entering their payment details (subscription, saved card, usage billing)?

**Recurring** → route to `<references/recurring/customers-and-mandates.md>` — this
is a distinct flow (Customers API → first payment → mandate → subscription or
on-demand charge), not a variant of one-time checkout. Webhook handling still
applies (`<references/payments/webhooks.md>`), but skip Step 4 below.

**One-time** → continue to Step 4.

---

## Step 4 — Understand their checkout preference

> How much control do you want over the payment experience?
>
> **A) Mollie-hosted checkout** — Mollie handles the entire payment page. Simplest to
> integrate; no frontend work required. Customers are redirected to Mollie to
> complete payment.
>
> **B) Build your own checkout** — You embed payment method selection and
> (optionally) card fields directly in your UI. More work, but full control over
> design and branding.
>
> **C) Payment link** — No embedded checkout at all. You share a URL with the
> customer (email, SMS, chat, QR code) instead of redirecting from a live session.
> Use this when there's no checkout page to redirect from — phone/mail orders,
> donations, social selling. (A formal invoice with payment terms/VAT lines is a
> different product — see Step 1's Sales Invoices branch.)
>
> Not sure? Hosted checkout takes ~30 minutes and handles everything for you. A
> custom checkout takes longer but keeps customers on your page throughout. If
> there's no live session to redirect from in the first place, it's a payment link,
> not A or B.

---

## Step 5 — Understand their stack

Before writing any code, ask:

> What language and framework are you using?
> - Backend: Node.js / PHP / Python / other?
> - Frontend: React / Vue / Next.js / vanilla JS / other?
> - Are you in test mode or live?

Use the answers to generate code with the correct SDK and idioms.

---

## Step 6 — Route to the correct reference

| Checkout preference | Card handling | Reference |
|---|---|---|
| Mollie-hosted checkout | Mollie handles card UI | `<references/payments/hosted-checkout.md>` |
| Build your own — embed card fields | Mollie Components (Mollie.js) | `<references/payments/components.md>` |
| Build your own — other methods only | Methods API + Payments API | `<references/payments/build-your-own-checkout.md>` |
| Payment link — no embedded checkout, share a URL | Mollie handles card UI | `<references/payments/payment-links.md>` |

All integrations require webhook handling — always include it: `<references/payments/webhooks.md>`

---

## SDK selection

Always use the official Mollie SDK for the developer's language:

| Language | Package |
|---|---|
| JavaScript / TypeScript / Node.js | `mollie-api-typescript` |
| PHP | `mollie/mollie-api-php` (Composer) |
| Python | `mollie-api-py` |

`@mollie/api-client` (Node) and `mollie-api-python` are the old/community SDKs —
don't use them for new integrations. If a developer already has one installed,
that's a migration case for the `mollie-upgrade` skill, not a new build.

Always use the v2 API. Never construct raw API calls when an SDK is available.

**Never use the Orders API for a new integration** — it's deprecated. Always build
against the Payments API (`payments.create`, etc.), including hold-then-capture
flows (`captureMode: 'manual'`, see `<references/operations/captures.md>`) that the
Orders API used to handle via Shipments. If a developer's existing code already uses
the Orders API, that's a migration case — route to the `mollie-upgrade` skill rather
than extending the old API.

---

## Critical rules — apply to every integration

- **Never** put API keys (`live_xxx` / `test_xxx`) in frontend code. Only the profile ID (`pfl_xxx`) belongs in the browser.
- **Always** verify payment status via webhook before fulfilling an order — never trust the redirect URL alone.
- **Always** respond with HTTP 200 to webhook requests before doing any async work. Mollie retries on any other status.
- **Always** redirect customers to the checkout URL using HTTP GET (303 See Other), never POST.
- The profile ID used in `Mollie()` on the frontend **must** belong to the same account as the API key used on the backend.
- In test mode, pass `testmode: true` to `Mollie()` on the frontend AND use a test API key (`test_xxx`) on the backend. Both must match.
- When a card payment fails, create a **new card token** and a **new payment** — you cannot retry on the same payment.
- Never show a payment result to the customer until the webhook has been received and processed.
- **Additionally**, for any refund, capture, or cancellation: read `<references/operations/write-action-safety.md>` before generating the code — these are harder to reverse than a payment creation.

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---
name: mollie-upgrade
description: >
  Activate this skill when a developer wants to upgrade their Mollie SDK to a newer
  version, or migrate an existing integration from a deprecated Mollie API to its
  replacement — most commonly migrating from the Orders API to the Payments API.
  This includes: updating @mollie/api-client, mollie-api-php, mollie-api-python, or
  mollie-api-typescript to a newer major version, resolving breaking changes after an
  upgrade, and moving off the Orders API (orderNumber, order lines, Shipments API,
  order cancellation) onto the Payments API (captures, release-authorization,
  unified refunds).
---

# Mollie Upgrade

This is a distinct workflow from `mollie-payments` — that skill builds new
integrations; this one changes existing, working code. Confirm current behavior
with tests before changing anything, and re-verify after.

## Step 1 — Identify the type of upgrade

> Are you updating your Mollie SDK to a newer version, or moving off the Orders API
> to the Payments API?

These require different playbooks — ask before proceeding.

---

## Step 2A — SDK version upgrade

1. **Detect the current version.**
   ```bash
   # Node.js
   npm list @mollie/api-client
   # TypeScript
   npm list mollie-api-typescript
   # PHP
   composer show mollie/mollie-api-php
   # Python
   pip show mollie-api-python
   ```
2. **Find the latest supported version and read its changelog** before touching
   code — do not upgrade blind. Check for a major version bump specifically; minor/
   patch upgrades rarely have breaking changes, major ones usually do.
3. **Identify breaking changes** relevant to this codebase — grep the existing
   integration for methods/fields the changelog flags as renamed or removed, rather
   than assuming nothing broke.
4. **Apply the version bump and required code changes** together, not separately —
   an upgraded dependency with unmigrated call sites will fail at runtime, not at
   install time, for a dynamically-typed language.
5. **Run the existing test suite.** If there isn't one covering the Mollie
   integration, say so explicitly before declaring the upgrade done — this skill
   should not report success on the basis of "the code compiles."
6. **Verify webhooks and payment flows manually in test mode** — create a test
   payment, complete it, confirm the webhook still fires and fulfilment still
   triggers, before recommending a live-mode deploy.

---

## Step 2B — Migrating from Orders API to Payments API

Mollie no longer recommends the Orders API. Payments API is simpler and gets new
features the Orders API doesn't. This is not a drop-in rename — several concepts
don't map 1:1.

### Field and endpoint changes

| Orders API | Payments API | Note |
|---|---|---|
| `orderNumber` | `description` | No dedicated order-number field |
| `lines[].name` | `lines[].description` | |
| Negative amounts on `physical`/`digital`/`shipping_fee`/`surcharge` lines | Not supported | Redesign any discount-via-negative-line logic |
| `consumerDateOfBirth` | Removed | No replacement field |
| `expiresAt` controlling authorization expiry | Removed | Authorization expiry is no longer configurable this way |

### Authorize-then-capture behavior changed

Orders auto-produced an `authorized` status for Klarna/Billie/Riverty. Payments
capture immediately by default — **you must explicitly set `captureMode: 'manual'`**
to keep a hold-then-capture flow. Without this, funds are taken immediately where
the old integration expected a hold. See `<mollie-payments:references/operations/captures.md>`
for the Payments-API capture flow.

### Fulfilment: Shipments API → Captures API

- The Shipments API doesn't exist for standalone Payments — use the Captures API
  instead.
- Captures only work on `authorized`-state payments, are amount-based (not
  line-based), and are asynchronous (status via webhook, not immediate).
- **You cannot use the Captures API on a payment that is still part of an Order** —
  fully migrate that transaction's flow, not just the capture call.

### Cancellation changed

Orders allowed cancelling individual lines or the whole order to release funds.
Payments only support releasing the **full** remaining authorized amount via the
release-authorization endpoint — there is no partial release. If the existing logic
does partial-line cancellation, it has no direct equivalent; flag this to the
developer rather than silently approximating it.

### Refunds consolidated

Orders had two refund paths (via order lines, or via the underlying payment).
Payments API has one — `<mollie-payments:references/operations/refunds.md>` — which
also works against legacy orders' underlying payments.

### Migration steps, in order

1. **Pre-migration gate: check for orders still in `authorized` status.** Those
   can't use the Captures API directly — resolve them under the old flow first.
   Do this before any of the steps below land in production, otherwise those
   orders end up with the old shipment path gone and the new Captures path unable
   to operate on them yet.
2. Replace *create order* calls with *create payment*, adjusting the field
   differences above.
3. Add `captureMode: 'manual'` anywhere a hold-then-capture flow is required.
4. Replace Shipments-API fulfilment logic with Captures-API calls — but only once a
   given transaction is fully off the Orders flow.
5. Replace order/line cancellation with the release-authorization endpoint; flag any
   partial-cancellation logic that has no direct equivalent.
6. Consolidate refund logic onto the single payment-refund endpoint.
7. **Migrate stored references from Order IDs to Payment IDs.** Use `embed=payments`
   on existing List/Get Order calls to find the underlying payment ID and confirm its
   status matches the order's status before cutting over stored references. Run this
   as a pre-deploy backfill, or ship it atomically with steps 2–6 in the same
   release — not after. Steps 2–6 already make the codebase expect Payment IDs; any
   lookup that runs between that deploy and a separately-completed backfill will fail
   against a database that still holds Order IDs.
8. **Webhook caveat**: payments created without a `webhookUrl` under the old Orders
   flow will reference the Order ID in webhook payloads, not a Payment ID — account
   for this if webhook handlers are being updated in the same pass.

---

## Step 3 — Produce a migration summary

Regardless of which path was taken, end with a short summary covering: what version/
API was migrated from and to, which breaking changes were found and how each was
resolved, what was verified (tests run, manual test-mode checks performed), and
anything flagged as needing a design decision rather than a mechanical fix (e.g.
partial-cancellation logic with no equivalent). Don't mark the migration complete if
verification was skipped — say so explicitly instead.