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Checkout.com - Integrate with Agentic Payments & Wallets

v1.2.1

Paypal compatible Payments & Wallet - Give your agent spending power. Financial management for Agents and OpenClaw bots.

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LicenseMIT-0 · Free to use, modify, and redistribute. No attribution required.
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Purpose & Capability
The skill's functionality (creating checkout pages, invoices, wallet signing, encrypted-card checkout) is coherent with requesting a single CREDITCLAW_API_KEY. However the skill title and registry name reference 'Checkout.com' while every file and the homepage use 'creditclaw.com' / 'CreditClaw' — a naming/branding mismatch that could be accidental or misleading. Aside from the naming inconsistency, the requested credential is proportionate to the described payment functionality.
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Instruction Scope
SKILL.md and companion files explicitly instruct the agent to call many CreditClaw endpoints (balance, checkout, encrypted-card key retrieval), receive or poll webhooks/messages for encrypted owner card payloads, retrieve one-time decryption keys, perform AES-256-GCM decryption in-memory, and use decrypted card data to perform merchant checkouts. All of this is within the declared purpose, but it grants the agent the ability to handle high-value secrets (owner card details) and to initiate real purchases. The instructions also tell the agent to fetch additional docs from external URLs at runtime, which introduces a runtime network-dependency and potential update-time change in behavior.
Install Mechanism
This is instruction-only with no install spec and no code files to be written or executed on the host. That minimizes install-time risk. Runtime network calls to creditclaw.com are required per the docs.
Credentials
Only a single environment variable/credential is required: CREDITCLAW_API_KEY. That is appropriate for a payments API. No unrelated credentials, system paths, or extra secrets are requested in the metadata.
Persistence & Privilege
The skill is not always-enabled and does not request elevated platform privileges. However, it grants an agent the capability to autonomously make or request purchases when invoked. Combined with the instruction-level ability to decrypt and use card data and to sign x402 payments, this gives the skill significant real-world effect — ensure approval_mode and spending limits are configured before enabling autonomous use.
What to consider before installing
This skill appears to implement a legitimate payments integration for a service hosted at creditclaw.com and only asks for one API key, which is expected. Key points before installing: 1) Verify the naming mismatch — the registry entry mentions 'Checkout.com' while the skill uses 'CreditClaw' and creditclaw.com; confirm you are intentionally granting access to CreditClaw and not another provider. 2) Treat CREDITCLAW_API_KEY as a high-value secret: only provide it if you trust creditclaw.com and its operators. 3) Configure owner controls before enabling the skill: set approval_mode to 'ask_for_everything' and low per-transaction/day/month limits for initial testing. 4) Understand the agent will be instructed to retrieve one-time decryption keys and to decrypt owner card details in-memory; confirm your agent execution environment will not log or persist decrypted card data. 5) Because the skill performs runtime network fetches of documentation and relies on webhooks/messages, review the service's privacy/security docs and reputation, and consider testing with a dummy/limited wallet first. If you want higher assurance, ask the publisher to clarify the Checkout.com naming and provide proof of control of creditclaw.com (e.g., official domain ownership or corporate identity).

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License

MIT-0
Free to use, modify, and redistribute. No attribution required.

Runtime requirements

EnvCREDITCLAW_API_KEY
Primary envCREDITCLAW_API_KEY

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