On April 30, Cloudflare and Stripe launched Projects . An agent can now create a Cloudflare account, register a domain, and deploy a Worker, paying with a Stripe-issued payment token with no human in the dashboard. The default cap is $100 per month. The Hacker News thread hit over 600 points and hundreds of comments within a day.

The launch post called it "agent commerce primitives." That's accurate. It's also the first time the trust gap stopped being a thought experiment and started being a deployment.

What got shipped

The flow is three steps. Stripe authenticates a human and issues a scoped payment token to the agent. Cloudflare accepts the token, provisions an account, and bills against it. The agent uses those credentials to register a domain, configure DNS, deploy code.

The cap is the only behavioral guardrail.…