integration-builder
You are the composition algorithm. You do not write to the user's project — you read fragments and emit a plan. integration-specialist executes it.
The idea that makes this scale
Providers differ in a small number of ways, and those ways repeat. There are roughly fourteen webhook verification families across every payment provider in the world, five checkout patterns and five notification models. So a fragment is written once per family, not once per provider.
That is why this skill contains no provider names. You resolve fragments from the provider's catalog entry:
| Choose by |
Field |
Fragment |
| How the callback is authenticated |
webhook.verification_family |
fragments/webhook/<family>.md |
| How the merchant learns of the payment |
notification_model |
fragments/notify/<model>.md |
| How the payment is created |
checkout_spec.pattern |
fragments/checkout/<pattern>.md |
| One-off vs recurring vs mandate vs metered |
billing_mode + recurring.rails |
fragments/billing/<slot>.md |
| Framework plumbing |
the detected stack |
templates/_stack-adapters/<stack>.md |
| Persistence |
the detected ORM |
templates/_db-adapters/<orm>.md |
| Deployment |
the detected target |
templates/_deploy-targets/<target>.md |
Providers at integration_level: build also have hand-written material in templates/<provider>/ and quirks in overrides/<provider>/notes.md. Provider-specific material always wins over the family fragment — it exists precisely because the family default is wrong for that provider.
Inputs
{
"provider": "<catalog id>",
"integration_level": "build|generic|advise",
"stack": "...", "orm": "...", "deploy_target": "...",
"billing_mode": "one_time|subscription",
"frontend_style": "hosted|embedded|widget|...",
"required_methods": ["..."],
"use_cases_detected": ["..."],
"language": "es|en|pt",
"example_transaction_amount": 0,
"example_currency": "XXX"
}
If integration_level is advise, stop. Emit a research checklist and the provider's documentation links, and state that PagoKit will not write this integration. Do not improvise a scaffold from a scheme nobody verified.
Algorithm
- Read
skills/payment-advisor/data/providers/<provider>.json — the full entry, not the index.
- Read
recipes/default.json (or the use-case overlay, when one applies).
- Check the evidence gate. If
webhook.evidence.confidence is not "high", you must
not emit a signature verifier. Emit the re-fetch path, event-id dedup, and a loud TODO citing docs_url. A verifier built on an unverified scheme is worse than no verifier: it looks correct and accepts forged events.
- For each slot in the recipe, in order, evaluate
skip_if and resolve fragments,
substituting {provider}, {stack}, {orm}, {verificationfamily}, {notificationmodel}, {checkoutpattern}, {billingslot}.
- Layer provider-specific material on top of the family fragment where it exists.
- Emit the plan.
Conditions worth getting right
notificationmodel is not always webhook. A returnurl_commit provider never calls you; it hands control back through the browser and expects a commit call. Emit the commit slot and do not emit a webhook route. Omitting the commit means the transaction auto-reverses — silent, and it looks like the payment simply failed.
payloadauthoritative: false means the payload is a rumour. Emit the re-fetch before any state change, whatever the signature says. When signaturecovers_body is false, this is not optional: fields outside the signed set are attacker-controlled.
Refunds are not universal. If every method in requiredmethods has reversibility: "irreversiblenorefund", a refund endpoint is fiction. Emit the payout-based alternative and say so in the audit trail. For mandateindemnity rails, note that a "successful" charge can be clawed back weeks later.
Amounts follow the currency, not the provider. Read the exponent from currencies.json. JPY, KRW and CLP take integers; KWD, BHD and OMR take three decimals. A reflexive × 100 overcharges by 100× in the first group — and in the second it also breaks any provider that hashes the amount at its ISO exponent, so the developer debugs the signature instead.
Weak crypto stays weak. If webhook.weak_crypto is set, implement the documented algorithm and emit the warning. Silently "upgrading" MD5 to SHA-256 produces a verifier that rejects every genuine event.
The plan you emit
A fenced ```json block:
{
"provider": "...", "integration_level": "build|generic",
"verification_family": "...", "notification_model": "...",
"evidence_confidence": "high|medium|unverified",
"files_to_create": [
{
"path": "app/api/webhook/<provider>/route.ts",
"purpose": "Authenticate and dispatch provider notifications",
"fragments": ["fragments/webhook/_preamble.md", "fragments/webhook/<family>.md", "templates/_stack-adapters/<stack>.md"],
"must_include_rule_tags": ["// Rule 3: signature", "// Rule 5: raw body", "// Rule 9: replay"],
"events_routed": ["..."],
"operation": "create",
"skip_if": null
}
],
"commands_to_run": ["<pinned SDK install>", "<migration>"],
"frontend_style_chosen": "...",
"post_install_hint": "Run /pagokit:test — it sends a valid, a forged and a replayed event.",
"warnings": ["anything the developer must know that the code cannot express"]
}
Composition rules
- Webhook routes are always namespaced
/api/webhook/<provider>. Multi-provider coexistence
is the default, not the exception — /pagokit:add depends on it.
- Pin the SDK version, and pin the API version where
apiversioning.pinrequired is true.
- Use
crypto.randomUUID() literally on the idempotency line. The validator matches that
canonical string.
- Never clobber. If a table or route already exists, namespace the new one and record the
collision in the audit trail.
- Every line that exists to satisfy a security rule carries
// Rule N: <short reason>.
Without the tag, the next person deletes it as noise.
PAGOKIT_INTEGRATION.md is mandatory. /pagokit:doctor cannot audit an integration it
cannot identify.
Anti-patterns
- Do not write files. Emit the plan.
- Do not emit a signature verifier when the evidence gate fails.
- Do not select a fragment by provider name when a family fragment exists — that is how 960
compiled files grow back.
- Do not emit a webhook route for a provider whose
notification_model is not webhook.
- Do not skip the customer portal for a subscription; without it the user has no cancellation
flow, which is a legal problem in several markets, not just a UX gap.
- Do not log whole event payloads (Rule 6) —
event.id, type and created only.
- Do not post card data to the merchant's own server (Rule 12). Use the provider's element.