Developer’s Quickstart Guide to PayPal’s Agent Toolkit

PayPal has released the agent toolkit quickstart guide to accelerate the development and integration of intelligent agents into your commerce workflows. While it may seem like just another developer doc, it's actually a gateway to something more significant: step-by-step instructions to get you started with building agentic commerce applications. 

This quickstart guide helps developers to get up and running with PayPal’s agent tools in minutes. It walks through installing the @paypal/agent-toolkit, setting up credentials, and integrating with popular frameworks like OpenAI’s Agents SDK or Vercel AI SDK. With just a few lines of code, developers can enable their agents to perform commerce tasks, such as creating orders, generating invoices, or processing payments—all from within a chat interface.  

Whether you're building with LangChain, CrewAI, OpenAI, or any other agentic development stack, the agent toolkit is interoperable. That means you’re not locked into a specific ecosystem, and you can bring PayPal’s powerful APIs into virtually any agent flow that you design. 

The toolkit guide and supporting documentation cover the basic integration steps developers complete to get started and an example of setting up the front end. Some best practices also are discussed, including using a sandbox for safe testing, using typed schemas for robust validation, and including logging for traceability. These features ensure that developers can create not only fast-moving prototypes, but production-grade agent applications with confidence. 

The implications of PayPal’s AI tools for commerce are enormous. Imagine a bakery’s customer messaging a bot to say “I want to buy two dozen cookies.” An agent can create an invoice, send a payment link, confirm the transaction, and initiate shipping. This kind of multi-step, transactional workflow is no longer speculative—it’s now accessible. 

PayPal’s agent toolkit quickstart guide equips developers to build a new generation of agent-powered commerce experiences. This toolkit positions PayPal at the center of a fast-emerging shift in how software—and commerce—works in the age of AI. 

Ready to Build? 

If you're exploring how to bring AI-driven, conversational commerce to life, now is the time to dive in. Check out the agent toolkit quickstart guide, and start building agents with the power of PayPal.  

For more information about PayPal’s AI tools and agents, visit PayPal.ai.  

*Disclaimer: PayPal’s MCP server and agent toolkit provide access to AI-generated content that may be inaccurate or incomplete. Users are responsible for independently verifying any information before relying on it. PayPal makes no guarantees regarding output accuracy and is not liable for any decisions, actions, or consequences resulting from its use.